I’ve been writing for a while about untethering. It’s about reaching the point where you realize you’re holding very tightly to something, so tight that it might even be a death grip.
Yesterday I wrote about untethering from a blog that I’d created and grown. Previously I wrote about untethering from religion and the need for life to have an inherent meaning. I let go of these tethers because they were holding me back.
The process of letting go is untethering.
I’m find that the peculiar thing about untethering is that until I do, I don’t realize how tightly I’ve been gripping. Because I’m gripping so tightly, I can’t reach out for what’s next.
I was gripping a belief model (religion) and a false need (the meaning of life) and let go of them both in order to reach out for what’s next in the process of personal evolution.
I was gripping to a business model that didn’t make sense no matter how hard I tried to force it.
We all grip things. We grip the very things that hold us back from our important work.
We grip false beliefs about ourselves that hold us back from achieving something important. We tightly grip our jobs and the false sense of security they represent and never publish that book we always wanted to write. We grip relationships, even when they’re bad for us, because we can’t imagine a new life for ourselves.
Gripping can be a big problem.
What are you gripping? What do you need to let go of in order to achieve something important?
