Hold On for Dear Life

HODL describes crypto traders who never sell no matter how much money they’ve lost. Proud eternal optimists would rather go down with a sinking ship than get out alive with some modicum of dignity and cash in their pocket.

I believe we all have examples in our own lives of holding on even when doing so is no longer in our favour. We remain in abusive relationships; stash boxes of clothes we’ll never fit into; remain disengaged in an unfulfilling job; are stuck in habits and lifestyle choices made at a younger age. What is it that prevents us from acknowledging that everything has a time and place?

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Hermann Hesse

Our material wealth, status, and possessions may come and go, so too our friends. ELO reminds us to ‘Hold on Tight’ to our dreams. This week consider your childhood dreams.  What have done with your life thus far that embodies the aspirations of your inner child?  Isn’t it time to re-ignite it?

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go, holding on and moving on. Havelock Ellis

One two cha cha cha

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward. - Vladimir Lenin

Optimists say it is not a disaster, it is the cha cha. - Anon  This week four planets: Mercury, Mars, Uranus and Neptune are retrograde meaning they appear to be moving backwards in the night sky.  According to the Cambridge dictionary retrograde means returning to older methods and ideas while in astrological terms retrograde planets make us more aware.

Time marches forward and we believe that there are far better things ahead than what we leave behind - CS Lewis. Even though we take one step back we are still moving forward.  It is up to us to choose to go back to safety or go forward towards growth. - Abraham Maslow

This week I invite you look back to see how far you have come and then turn to face the future. The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is called the dance of life and when you dance to your own rhythm, life taps its toes to your beat.

Facing the Future

My lips are chapped from the winds of change. Sarah Vowell

Slowly restrictions are being lifted and we emerge to a new way of being. Social distancing is a norm so is the taking of temperatures, zoom calls, alcohol gel and wearing a mask in public.  I look towards the future, dwelling in possibility. Emily Dickinson  for it is no more uncertain than the present. Walt Whitman
We can choose to face to the future with apprehension or anticipation. Jim Rohn. Robert Frost says, in three words I can sum up everything I have learned about life.  It goes on.

Winston Churchill said it was wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. This is particularly true given the the fluidity of change. The same winds blow on all of us. of disaster, opportunity and change. It is not the blowing of the wind but how we set our sails that makes the difference. Jim Rohn

This week I invite you to accept the past without regrets, the present with confidence and the future without fear anon.The past can't be changed but the future is in your power. Mary Pickford for there are  far better things ahead than what we leave behind. CS Lewis