Daily Gratitude: Letting go in any shape or form is extremely difficult for humans. And this type of letting go may be one of the worst, ranking right up there with letting go of a relationship.

It’s important though. When I was 4 I decided i was going to be a doctor (God told me I was and who was i to argue). Within the next few years I professed to the world that I was going to be a neurosurgeon just like Ben Casey (a TV show starring a neurosurgeon for those of you too young to know this)! That was it. No ifs, ands, or buts.

Fast forward to the age of 21 where I was diagnosed with epilepsy. It wasn’t the diagnosis that bothered me although that was bad enough. It was that i knew I couldn’t become a neurosurgeon- or any kind of surgeon for that matter.

I had to let go. Did I want to let go? Heck no but I didn’t have any choice. Facts were facts.

You’ve heard me say this many times before – my ultimate career choice was so much better and I ended up doing more good in the military disability system than I ever would have as a neurosurgeon. My life and that of many others was positively impacted by that one diagnosis and my letting go.

What is really bothering you right now? Can you let it go and trust the universe? How will that look for you? Not your future but the actual letting go? It’s nebulous but can you embrace this