I have way, WAY too many possessions. I need to strenuously enforce the six (6) month rule. In other words, if I haven’t used it, worn it or read it in 6 months…Vamoose!!!!
I don’t need more than 5 of anything! For myself.
I have two TVs and I almost never watch either one of them. In my defense, one of them is collateral for a debt. What am I doing, she will never pay, and I don’t need the money anyway. What I need is to let go of the expectation that people will honor their commitments. She WON’T. She is not the only one.
Releasing that one.
Next, I have way too many books that I am not willing to let go of. Whoever thought of “Little Free Libraries” is a genius. I have, however, started a new habit. I now like to read the book while listening to someone read it to me. Two for the price of one, thus enabling me to “Hold On” to the information. “Retention,” I believe it is called.
Another thing I need to let go of is my tendency to be so excited about some extrapolation of some synergy of a couple of various concepts that I want to shout them to the highest mountain before I even understand them myself. I guess I should learn to hold my tongue. Fat chance.
I think what I have learned recently is that I need very little. The only thing I need to hold onto is my well-earned self-respect. That respect was germinated, honed and cultured in my Recovery Communities, Writing Groups, with the love and respect of the people in the “rooms”.
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