“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

There is a time in everyone’s lives where there is nothing you can do but let go. Almost like an epiphany comes over you and you instantly decide to change your life for the better. Career change, relationship issues, family feuds, friendship queries, or simply the life and path you are currently traveling on is not what you want; nothing is worth your unhappiness. I know, easier said than done, but I promise you, the second you build up enough will-power, or the moment where the pain that continually eats you alive has become unbearable – releasing will be the best feeling of your life.

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition” – Steve Jobs

I never want to look back on life and regret anything. I firmly believe that all past experiences and situations were put in front of every person for a reason. Some reasons are more clear than others, sometimes faith in any type of higher being gets difficult to believe in, but at the end of the day, at the end of my life, I want to be able to say that nothing stopped me from living the life I was put on this Earth to live.

So the question is, how do we let go? How do we handle situations that are out of our control, but need our control in order to get through? I have personally learned the biggest lesson of my life this month. Sometimes it is okay to just let go. Sometimes its okay to just say “screw it” and let go of all the negativity in your life  – because this is your life, and you only get one to live.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain…. To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but to embrace it.” – Kevin Aucoin