Letting Go to Grow

<p>So many of us - myself included - have had the wrong idea of what will truly set us free.</p><p>On some level we know it’s not things like paying off the debt, finding your soul mate, being location independent, losing the weight, finding the perfect job...(ask me how I know).</p><p>But we forget this and we think, well sh*t, maybe it IS all that stuff. Or maybe it IS about that once you have kids. Or get older. </p><p>We think maybe it IS what’s going on “out there” that we need to fix.</p><p>So we waste tons of time, money, and energy on things that are just a temporary fix. A false sense of freedom. A fleeting sense of happiness.</p><p>You’ve heard me say it before and I’ll say it again: freedom, rebels, is a <strong>feeling</strong>.</p><p>It’s the <strong>inside </strong>job that shifts things. And it ain’t easy. In fact, it’s scary as f*ck.</p><p><i>Waaaay</i> scarier than anything fixing the “outside” would require.</p><p>But would you rather <strong>never </strong>be afraid again anyway? I doubt it. Because all good stuff in life gets scary at some point. Love, Mountains, travels to new remote places...</p><p>And if you said yes, you don’t ever want to be afraid again, remember: ships are safe in harbor but that is not what ships are built for. And your the mother effin SS Freedom Ship!</p><p>We think feeling anxiety and fear (or disappointment or failure or any of the hard feelings) is something to run from. But they are just emotions. And being afraid to feel them keeps us from so many epic things in life - adventures, deep love, authentic living, discovering our power and living our truth.</p><p><strong>True </strong>Freedom.</p><p>The <strong>surprise </strong>that most people don’t anticipate is that once you clean up your limiting thoughts and beliefs, all the other stuff tends to follow - the love, the travel, the ideal job, the abundance.</p><p>These shifts will require the scary (and <strong>exciting</strong>) work of completely letting go of who you currently are in order to grow and evolve i