Loosening Your Grip on Control and Focusing on Moving with Intention

Life will find ways to challenge our sense of control.

There will be experiences that force each of us to recognize that much of progression, in its million and one forms, has very little to do with our own efforts.

We can choose to show up, and while opportunity may reciprocate, what happens next has very little to do with control.

Rather than manipulate outcomes, hopefully, we learn to respect the natural boundaries that governs how life unfolds, and what events take place.

Much of anything beyond self; how we think, behave, and feel, is grossly out of bounds.

Anything beyond self is largely outside of our realm of control.

The practice of non-attachment teaches us to lead with our best foot forward. We do our best, then watch and wait. The path becomes clear as the actions and reactions in response to our best, offer just enough clarity to take the next step.

Loosening your grip on control requires a healthy alternative.

Presence.

It is with presence that we start to see our path unfold. Rooted in making conscious choices from a place of purpose, rather than allow our judgment to be clouded by fear.

Moving with intention.

In pivoting our focus away from external outcomes, we can tap into intention. Practicing mindfulness, harnessing the power inherent in ensuring inner alignment with the actions, behaviours, and thoughts that propel us forward.

Focus.

Learning to bring the focus inward.

Shatters through the judgments, criticisms, and opinions that seek to manipulate and shape limits to an otherwise limitless reality. We each possess untapped potential, abilities and capabilities that often lay buried in the wake of the limited beliefs we chose and continue to choose to ground our realities in.

In truth, there is little to be gained and much to be lost when trying to control outcomes beyond self. Seeking to control the people, places, and situations that life confronts you with, will leave you making concessions and compromises that can destroy you. Maybe not all at once, but bit by bit.

Every semblance of gain, a step backward.

Burrowing time that you’ll find yourself unable to return.

The world within provides you with the natural limits of your control. Life will teach you to respect your limits and trust that your path will unfold the way it is supposed to, even if that does not align with what you want.

Ultimately, we are each exactly where we are supposed to be in this life.

Growing, or learning.

Let experience be the teacher that enables each of us to navigate with intention, mindfulness, presence, and focus.

There is little beyond those traits that matter more in attracting the life that was always yours to fulfill.

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