Stop Smelling Dead Flowers.
Just as flowers go through the birth and dead cycle, so do situations in our lives. Have you ever heard of deadheading? No? Okay cool. Well simply put, it is removing all the dead flowers from the plant to accelerate the growth process. New flowers will not be able to bloom with a plant full of shriveled, crumbly pedals. Deadheading is a continuous process. Not just a one and done thing. If only we treated our lives as well as the professional gardeners treated their gardens. Allowing ourselves to let go of the past and the things that are just no longer growing us. Unfortunately, we love comfort. The past is comfortable because the past is all we know. The future seems scary sometimes because we have not experienced it before. Even if it is toxic, even if it is painful, even if we know that past situation didn't produce love, we still rather hold on to that, then clip it out because it is familiar. But holding on to them does what? What benefit does that give us? Giving a dead flower more sun, healthy soil, and more water will only dry it out and wilt it. Leave it alone. Walk away from it. Release it from your life. Imagine what could bloom into your life once you start taking away those things that block your light and block your blessings. It might be friendships that just do not provide positive energy anymore, a job meant for someone else that is not good for growth, a relationship that only strokes your ego and not your soul, it could be ANYTHING that just needs to stay in the past. Build a new garden. We all love new toys as kids, but as we grow older for some reason "new" just puts us through so much panic. Just take that chance. Snip, snip, snip, snip, and keep snipping.