Sell The Goat!

Tony Meindl shares this today…

JUDITH LASATER, a wonderful yoga teacher and writer, tells a story about “selling the goat.”

It’s a metaphor for taking a step back and gaining perspective on your life when a situation is troublesome or stressful and it’d be helpful to see it with a new pair of eyes. She suggests, “selling the goat” – which simply means, to let go of your fixed, fearful hold on things and see the situation from a more accurate perspective.

Breathe.

I’m taking her idea one step further. To me, “the goat” represents not only our conditioned way of thinking about things and our habituated response from a negative, limited-view way of thinking, but also, it represents the multitude of distractions in our lives.

You know the ones…

Unsupportive friends. Negative lovers. Disrespectful agents. Toxic relationships. Two-timing partners. Mean managers. Horrible bosses.

These people are not helping or being supportive with where you want to go in life.

Sell it. Get rid of it. Recycle it. Cash it in. Pack your bags. Change your zip code.

Life is too short.

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