Stop trying so hard to make it happen.<\/p>\n
Stop doing so <\/em>much, if doing so much is wearing you out or not achieving the desired results.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop thinking so much and so hard about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop worrying so about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop trying to force, to manipulate, to coerce, or to make it happen.<\/em><\/p>\n Making things happen is controlling.\u00c2\u00a0 We can take positive action to help things happen.\u00c2\u00a0 We can do our part.\u00c2\u00a0 But many of us do much more than our part.\u00c2\u00a0 We overstep the boundaries from caring and doing our part into controlling, caretaking, and coercing.<\/p>\n Controlling is self-defeating.\u00c2\u00a0 It doesn’t work.\u00c2\u00a0 By overextending ourselves to make something happen, we may actually be stopping it from happening.<\/p>\n Do your part in relaxed, peaceful harmony.\u00c2\u00a0 Then let it go.\u00c2\u00a0 Just let it go.\u00c2\u00a0 Force yourself to let it go, if necessary.\u00c2\u00a0 “Act as if.”\u00c2\u00a0 Put as much energy into letting go as you have into trying to control.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ll get much better results.<\/p>\n — Melody Beattie, The Language of Letting Go, <\/em>p. 206-207<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop thinking so much and so hard about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop worrying so about it.\u00c2\u00a0 Stop trying to force, to manipulate, to coerce, or to make it happen. Making things […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,9,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letting-go","category-life","category-peace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}