Control and Influence: Letting Go

Letting go does not mean to stop caring. It means I can’t do it for someone else.

Letting go is not to cut myself off. It’s the realization that I can’t control another.

Letting go is to realize the outcome is not in my hands.

Letting go is not to try to change, blame, or criticize another. It’s to make the most of myself.

Letting go is not to care for, but to care about.

Letting go is not to fix, but to be supportive.

Letting go is not to judge, but to allow another to be a human being.

Letting go is not to be in the middle, arranging all the outcomes, but to allow others to affect their own destinies.

Letting go is not to deny, but to accept.

Letting go is not to nag, scold, or argue, but instead to search out my own shortcomings and correct them.

Letting go is not to adjust everything to my desires, but to take each day and cherish myself in it.

Letting go is not to regret the past, but to grow and live in the present.

Letting go is to fear less and love more.