Stop trying so hard to make it happen.
Stop doing so much, if doing so much is wearing you out or not achieving the desired results.
Stop thinking so much and so hard about it. Stop worrying so about it.
Stop trying to force, to manipulate, to coerce, or to make it happen.
Making things happen is controlling. We can take positive action to help things happen.
We can do our part. But many of us do much more than our part.
We overstep the boundaries from caring and doing our part into controlling, caretaking and coercing.
Controlling is self-defeating. It doesn't work.
By over-extending ourselves to make something happen, we may actually be stopping it from happening.
Do your part in relaxed, peaceful harmony.
Then let it go.
Just let it go.
Force yourself to let it go, if necessary. "Act as if."
Put as much energy into letting go as you have into trying to control. You'll get much better results.
It may not happen. It may not happen the way we wanted it to and hoped it would.
But our controlling wouldn't have made it happen either.
Learn to let things happen because that's what they'll do anyway.
And while we're waiting to see what happens, we'll be happier and so will those around us.
Taken from "The Language of Letting Go" by Melody Beattie
