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Letting Go

Overcoming Fear and Doubt

By Rebecca BrooksPublished 3 years ago 3 min read
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Letting go is hard. It's downright scary. There is comfort inside complacency, there is an odd peace that comes with knowing what to expect even if when you aren't living a fully realized life.

It's scary but it's necessary.

Imagine if you will that you are walking on a path and come across fresh concrete. Logically you should walk around it, you know what will happen if you step inside.

Fear, worry, self-doubt, these are the things that convince you its really a rain puddle and encourage you to jump in.

Before long your rooted to your spot and become a passive participant in your own life.

You stay in a career you don't want,

You stay in relationships that aren't meeting your needs,

You focus everything on others and forget about your own dreams.

So many of us do this. We get into the routine of eat, work, sleep, repeat that we forget that we once demanded more of ourselves. As children we where fearless. We embraced the unknown like explorers eager to discover whatever the day would bring.

Somewhere along the line though, "I will," becomes "I can't," and little by little we become convinced that the best we can do is to get through the day instead of fully participating in it.

We don't demand the best in ourselves or our relationships because the fear of losing what we know outweighs the discovery of what we don't.

We stop pursuing our passions because we worry about failure and convince ourselves that if we never try we can't feel the sting.

Be it in a relationship, a career, or even how you treat yourself, so many of us settle for less because our fear somehow learned to shout louder than our dreams.

So here is what I say to you.

It's ok to let go.

It's ok to admit if you are in a rut.

It's ok to pursue love on your terms.

It's ok to find work that makes you happy.

Not only is it ok, it's necessary.

You won't ever know what wonder awaits you if you are too afraid to find out.

Yes, you might fail at something, yes you might even lose people in your life. Yes, you might not have a cushy account. What you will have in the end though is peace of mind.

Loss, by choice or through no circumstances of your own does hurt.

It is also how you grow.

It's how you learn, how you evolve, how you realize that just like Dorothy in Oz, the power was always yours alone.

Change is scary. The not knowing can feel a bit like walking through a carnival fun house, around each corner a surprise.

It's also inspiring, liberating and thrilling. Inside each new choice you author the pages of your choose your own adventure book, you become the author of your life.

Let go my friends. Of your fear, your worry, your doubt.

Be brave. Be bold.

You may not know what comes next but if you open yourself to the idea, you'll never regret the journey for it was always yours to go on.

You will always, regret, however, allowing your fear from preventing you from finding out.

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