I’ve never cared for the phrase, “Go with the flow.” If it sounds too much like giving up to you, read on.
I’ve never really liked the phrase ‘go with the flow.’ As a planner / recovering perfectionist / former (most days) control freak, it always sounded like a cop-out, similar to ‘good enough’ or ‘it is what it is.’
But over the past few years, I’ve learned (not always by choice) the value in loosening my grip on the way things are ‘supposed to be’ and flowing a bit more freely. We can still plan and dream and set goals and visualize, but rather than attaching to a rigid my-way-or-the-highway outcome, we can savor the journey and adjust our sails as necessary.
As we near the end of 2016, what do you need to let go of in order to create space for a fresh, vibrant, flowing new year? A few possibilities:
- The way things ‘should’ be
- Past mistakes
- Grudges
- One-way-only mentality
- Negativity
- Limiting mindset
Learn from your experiences. Right your wrongs. But don’t always force yourself to paddle frantically against the flow simply because it doesn’t look exactly as you had planned. Sometimes our greatest gifts (and indeed our biggest learnings) come not from our death grip on what should be but from releasing, opening, and freeing ourselves to possibility.