I love spring cleaning. I love throwing things away, whether it's a new month, a new season, or a new year. It just gives me an opportunity to clear things out, clear out all the old things that no longer serve me, maybe even give some things away to help someone else, and receive new things, and receive better things. So, let's jump into what are the nine things to consider letting go to allow more in your life. So, the first one is self-doubt. I really had to struggle with this one in the very beginning of my career, just really being in a place to build up that courage and confidence. Takes a lot of work. So, self-doubt is number one.

Two, revisiting the past. So, if you are a person who is constantly talking about an ex person that you were with, or someone who did something to you in the past, or even constantly talking about like past achievements, or something you did in high school, just constantly reliving the past, revisiting it, really takes away the joy of the present moment. So, that is definitely a habit to consider letting go.

Number three is placing blame on others. Being a part of that victim me all the time, you know, someone's doing somethings to me, someone said something about me, or this person won't let me have something. That's really a habit to let go because it doesn't help you move forward in your life. Another way to look at it is how can you really find opportunities to create and take on more responsibility for what happens in your life.

Number four is unhealthy relationships. And this isn't just limited to romantic relationships with, you know, loved one or exes. This is also friendships and family, which can be the toughest, especially if you live with them or, you know, you have to see them for family events, but any unhealthy relationship should have be removed from your life. Or you should really set boundaries on what you're willing to enable and allow and not.

Number five is speaking badly of others. Woo. I used to do that in high school. It's something as an adult I run away from every moment it comes up. I don't participate in gossip, negative news about anyone. It's just not what I'm about. It's not what I even want to be in a room or at a table where people are speaking negatively of others. I just don't need that energy in my life and you don't need that energy in your life.

So, poor dietary habits. So, when I started my practices, especially with gratitude, I wanted to feel better. I wanted to have more energy and just have an uplifted mood about everything. And part of feeling good mentally is also feeling good physically as well. So, letting go of little snacking things that I love. I love all salty, chippy kind of things. I had to let those go and in letting them go it really gave me more space and opportunity for healthy things in my life. More fruits, more vegetables, more time to drink water. So, help poor dietary habits is definitely something to let go.

Number seven is letting fear hold you back. Now, I won't say let go of fear because fear does have some element of keeping us safe, right? But I think letting fear hold us back from trying something new, doing something new is a habit to consider letting go as well.

Number eight is negative self-talk. It really takes some work to stop telling yourself you're not good enough, you're not pretty enough, you're not worthy enough, the likelihood of you doing something is not going to happen. We sometimes have these scripts that we tell our ourselves constantly in our minds. The next chapter, the mental happy practice three talks about the power of positive self-talk. We'll dive into that in the next chapter, but in this in this course we'll cover a little bit on how to let go of that negative self-talk habit.

And number nine is the need to know everything. This is something I had to learn in my career that, you know, you will plan to do things, you prepare, you work hard, but also allowing some room for just the magic of the universe to happen, for things to unfold in the right timing, for you to meet the right people. Those are sometimes things that you just can't foresee, and you don't really have any control over.

These nine things are just considerations for you to look at what area in my life could I possibly maybe detach myself from these things and allow more. So, definitely take some time, review the list of nine things that you could potentially let go. Don't try to think of them all at once. For this week and for our next exercise, maybe just pick three that you want to start with this week to really start to work and unravel. Write your three down, write what you would consider as action plans to moving forward to letting go of those habits.