Saying Goodbye is Hard - Letting go in Life and Business
Saying Goodbye is Hard 💔
I dropped my brother and three nieces off at the airport yesterday, and saying goodbye to them never gets easier.
My siblings (I’m the oldest of five) and I don’t live in the same part of the world anymore, so opportunities for us all to be together at the same time have become fewer and farther between.
On my drive home (boo-hooing like a baby), I started thinking about all of the goodbyes I’ve said this year after making the decision to follow my long-time dream of being a digital nomad.
I said…
Goodbye to my corporate team that I loved and worked with for 10 years.
Goodbye to the security of a consistent paycheck, my “fancy” executive title, and all the corporate perks.
Goodbye to Chicago, a city I adored, and the incredible community of friends I made there.
Goodbye to my family as I jetted off to live on the opposite side of the world.
Goodbye to the everyday comforts of living in a Western society.
And then…
Goodbye to the new friends and community I built in Bali and Egypt.
Goodbye to places that felt like home before I was ready to leave them.
Some goodbyes were easier than others, but I realized that with each goodbye, I was being taught the same lesson over and over again: how to let go.
When we choose to trust our intuition and step into a new identity, a new paradigm in life or business, there will always be a moment of decision.
And part of that decision will always include an aspect of letting go… sometimes briefly, sometimes for good.
It may be...
Letting go of people.
Of places.
Of familiar comforts.
Or going inward and…
Letting go of old habits and ways of being that keep us small.
Letting go of belief systems that limit what we’re capable of.
Letting go of money stories that block us from receiving and holding abundance.
It doesn’t matter what level were at, with each identity shift, the reason we must let go remains the same:
We must let go of the old to make space for the new.
Saying goodbye is hard.
But this year I’ve learned to meet each goodbye with gratitude.
Gratitude for the identities I’ve outgrown, the dreams that once mattered but no longer fit, for the people and places that shaped me...
For or the past versions of myself who carried me as far as they could.
We often feel like letting go means we’re losing something, yet it’s actually the practice that allows us to step into who we’ve always wanted to be.
Happy Monday.
Have a wonderful week ahead, Friends.
With love,
SueEllen
