It’s already broken. It’s already difficult. It’s already a struggle and it’s already mentally draining. The seemingly unattainable life and career successes you crave are leaving you feeling hopeless and less than the smart and wonderful person you know you are meant to be. .
The lack of joy, the lack of options, the lack of professional growth is what is destroying you inside. Instead of fighting it, go ahead and break it. Let’s break down once and for all the disappointments, mistakes, failures, and should’s, should haves, could’ves — let’s finally break it all down — for real!
Look, you’re holding back a little too much. You endure what happens. what happens? What was supposed to be happening by now? What I thought I deserved. What did you invest in? About the dream I had yesterday. You are holding on to the shattered parts of your hopes, your life, and your career, but the jagged edges are preventing you from carving out your intended career success and making the life and career leaps you truly desire.
Let go of your brokenness and find success in your life and career.
The broken pieces you are holding on to are limiting your ability to grow and do more. These areas reduce the area that needs to grow. They cause you to fall to your knees when you should be rising, and they dull your strength and abilities where you should shine.
Broken pieces block your shine and hinder your personal and professional growth. If you want to experience more of your deepest hopes and dreams, you must push through and let go, even if it costs you something to do so.
This is tough. It’s hard to let go. I know this. You know this, right? But what you may not realize is that holding on is even harder. If you continue to hold on to broken pieces, your body will break in the worst possible way. Constantly trying to turn death into life and expecting pain to magically turn into joy will break you. Living with ever-present feelings of sadness and misery can break your heart.
Every year I expect to get a promotion and it breaks my heart. Asking the same people in your organization, especially your boss, to see something different in you can be heartbreaking. Spending another year in a career that isn’t working out will break your heart. But you can break it before it breaks. You can do this! You can create a completely different and better reality, life and career experience.
In order for you to shine, you need to break something.
To experience joy, it must be fun. To experience peace, you must be at peace. In order to have a great life and career, you have to be great yourself. And these things don’t or simply can’t be done if the goal is to prevent breaks. When your goal is to hold onto something that is hurting you.
Many of you have heard me say this. To experience something different, you have to do something different. And in order to do things differently, we must first recognize that something has to break. In fact, something has to break.
The only question is whether you’ll end up finishing within the break or beyond the break. The question is whether you will ultimately experience setbacks or breakthroughs.
You are much more powerful than you know. You are much braver than you think. You already have everything you need to build the life and career you want. You know this because you had the power, courage, and strength to hold on to the broken pieces that tore you to the core for years (perhaps even decades). You know this, because it costs more to hold on than to let go, and you hold on beyond the limits of pain, beyond the limits of fear. You have already sacrificed too much.
If you can hold onto regrets, disappointments, and unmet expectations this much (and for this long), you already know you’re good. All you have to do is finally accept that something has to break. Sure, breaks hurt, and they can be painful and scary. But that’s what you need to do to grow.
Breakthrough to life and career success!
The grass on the other side is not greener. It’s just much more nutritious. I know this because I had to accept a break and learn to let go of the broken parts of my life and career that were no longer serving me. I had to feel every cut, every rejection, every fear. I had to learn to let go and dedicate consistent nourishment to building the life and career I want.
Certainly it is difficult. It requires discipline and sacrifice. Success in life and career costs a lot of money (more than many people are willing to pay). However, I made a groundbreaking discovery. I hope you get it too.
After accepting a break and letting go of the broken pieces, you will not only survive, but will definitely grow. You will grow more in joy and peace than you ever have in pain and fear. You’re stepping into a world of scary new things, but it’s certainly new. You can build new relationships and support networks and reach new heights both personally and professionally. You may fall down, but you will always get back up. And yes, it fails. We all fail from time to time. But your success will be just as great.
Let’s make a different time this time. Take ownership of the power you have to create the life and career success you desire. Show the mental strength to understand your life experiences and setbacks without belittling them.
This is your moment. Now it’s your turn! Make tomorrow different and create meaningful experiences. Embrace the break and let go of the broken parts of your life and career.
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