As vague as the title of this post may sound – this is one of the central practices and attitudes I believe is so crucial when it comes to manifesting greater happiness and success in our lives. Successful entrepreneurs are not an accident. They have certain ways about their being which have landed them in their richness – on the exterior and interior.

Really, financial freedom is a by-product of their internal growth.

What do I mean by ‘picking things up’? A lot of things. ‘Picking things up’ ultimately boils down to any conscious choice we make – whether it be something as small as sleeping by 11pm or as big as launching into your own business or perhaps dealing with a loved one. Whatever the choice, there will be some consequence that follows – which of course, we have no control over.

However, here is the insane part. 95% of people will focus and hang on to the consequences after things have been accomplished. (Or even crazier, start guessing what the consequences might be before acting on the choice…but I’m going to digress from the intent of this post so I’ll save it for another time). The reaction could be disappointment, hurt, anger etc..

I know during my adolescent years, I really struggled with regaining true positivity every time someone close would criticize me – always pointing out reasons why I cannot do things.  My emotional reflex to that of course was to jump at my own defense – which sometimes that played out as spiteful anger and other times as simply having my own pity-party! I would go into all sorts of rants, justifications and rationalizations as to why I have been wronged, how I was right etc etc. I would dwell on it the entire night, or god forbid, a whole week! And in hindsight (being the best teacher), so much productivity was lost to dealing with those emotions which I had no say over. They simply ‘arose’ and I just passively soaked it up – like a true victim.

Truth is, we do this all day long ….in every instance we find ourselves dwelling on something somebody has said or done. And often, the closer that person, the harder we find to let it go and forgive. It comes back to that old saying ‘forgive and forget’. And I’ll say right now, 95% of people don’t REALLY forgive, and don’t REALLY forget. Otherwise, there would be no room for recurring conflict over the same issues!

In a similar way, the harder or longer we have strived for something and ‘failed’, the more difficult we find to renew ourselves with the same belief that we can still achieve our ideals. And again, the vast majority live like this for most of their lives, passively dictated by their emotions and hence, never truly able to steer their lives in the way they honestly deserve. And we ALL deserve happiness and wealth in our lives without a doubt.

So can you see, that our ability to have the courage to ‘pick things up’, in the face of any consequence, and the complete audacity to then just ‘let things go’ regardless of the outcome (good or bad)… is SO damn important to our own happiness and success… because we are ENTIRELY responsible for it. The faster we can implement this in any given moment we react to something that we recognize in ourselves as being unnecessary, the greater productivity we will have. And what comes with greater productivity? More results that you desire. =)

To Success and Persistent Growth,

Jane