5 months ago, me and my wife moved on from our home, gave up our cats and literally gave up our old way of living. I felt free, liberated and a part of me felt deeply sad about letting go the cats specifically.
The cats felt like my children in some ways. I do realize they are kitties 😉 but also let go the little cats I had cared for from 4 to 13 years. That is a long time, folks. Anyway, I placed the 16 year old cat with relatives. Everything worked well. She adjusted immediately. But the remaining two 4 year old cats may not be working in the current environment. Dear friends of ours took them in; one seems OK and the other became a bit wary, reclusive and she even hissed at our friends, being a total loner, all of a sudden.
What can we do? We need to cut ties with at least one kitty by getting her in a new home outside of our friend network. Doing so is simply the right thing to do but also fully cuts our ties with her as we cannot keep updated with anyone outside of our friend network. See it like a clean cut. She has her life. We have our life. I already feel a bit freer because both doing the right thing and also giving away the cat to someone outside of our known network cuts ties we need to cut to be free of the past, from the life we lived in New Jersey to all the beings we aligned with.
Blogging is no different. I had to let go an old blog, brand and many blogging relationships over 12 years to become the blogger I am today. Blogging successfully means blogging with a growth mindset of moving forward, evolving and continually releasing anything or anyone who appears to hold you back. I let go many old blogging bonds no longer serving me to align with empowered, loving friends who helped accelerate my success as I helped them. Simply releasing an old blog – even though doing so scared me – and old brands, and old income streams, positioned me to be who I am now. Let go the past. Cut the ties. Grow. Grow more quickly as you cut more ties with a blogging past holding you back, stunting your growth.
Cutting ties feels unpleasant sometimes. Letting go all ties to my native New Jersey felt freeing but depressing. I felt deep sadness and flat out grief at the feeling of letting go my cats because we bonded deeply. But this cutting of ties to the past felt necessary because I had to grow out of being *that* person in order to be the more detached, evolved person I am today. I cannot put this into words. You have to intimately feel the power of release, yourself. Letting go helps you grow brilliantly.
Take stock.
What needs to go with your blogging campaign?
Peep this list:
- blog
- blog theme
- folks from your friend network
- income streams
What needs to go to accelerate your blogging growth? Letting go the old and worn out makes room for new ideas, new friendships and new elements of your blogging campaign you literally could not tune into if you held on to the old, worn out ways of being. I only created Blogging From Paradise and my flagship eBook by letting go an old blog and brand. Heck; I trashed another old blog, brand and eBook to make room for Blogging From Paradise, too.
Let go to grow.
Release what needs to go from the past to make room for a bright, new, prospering blogging future.
