How to let go

A few weeks ago, I have published an article about decluttering. I would like to talk a little bit more about it. I am visiting my home country Cyprus; Limassol and I have decided that it is time to declutter my room as I have brought all my staff from my house to my mom’s.?

If you see the below picture you will understand that there is a chaos of clothes, shoes, hats and scarf hahaha and this is just one of the three rooms full of stuff. Honestly who can have too many hats and scarfs?? That moment to be honest I thought of the classic phrase “OMG I have nothing to wear!” come on, we are all guilty of that, aren’t we?

It was emotional though and that moment once again I came to the realization that it is not the clothes as such that we keep but the memories attached to them. If something is extremely valuable to me, I would keep it but are all those scarfs that I will never wear again attached to me emotionally?

The art of letting go is important, I will make a video and share it on my YouTube sharing a few techniques. I wasn’t letting go of the scarf, but I was letting go of my old self. If you are a high achiever, you will understand what I am about to say. I used to run 1000000 miles per second, I reached milestones in my career, but I didn’t really enjoy it because I was thinking about the next goal. At the age of 45 and after certain situations in my life like losing my best friend made me realize that the most important asset in our life is the people, we have around us and not the Burberry scarf or the Louis Vuitton bag.?

We must detach ourselves from the material world. Don’t get me wrong I love fashion!!! I am that person that will go to the pub wearing a furry coat! Whatever you are not using it means that it is not serving you anymore. This can apply in any area of your life like people, work, house, clothes and the list goes on.?

Every ten years we are changing as humans our pace is changing, maybe even our goals and that’s okay. It took me a while to be honest as I was used to running all of my life. There was a time that I was living in the airport as I was traveling so often. That had an impact on my health and in general my lifestyle. I have achieved all my goals so far. I am an achiever and a winner, I never give up, but you know what I have decided now? I am sharing this hoping that I might inspire some of you. I have a friend who we can philosophize for hours and he asked me yesterday what my goal is now that I have achieved everything that I wanted so far.?

My answer was “I want to be genuinely happy” and then he asked me what is happiness to you? As I am a creative person pictures popped up in my head. The picture was me with my loved one, who he is very special to me, smiling and eating as we are obsessed with food!???the kids smiling both of them doing what they love. Yes, it is a simple picture full of love and smiles. My life journey so far was long, and I know many of you can relate to this story. I can’t even remember how many times I was crying missing my kids, getting obsessed with success. It was like a drug actually I must admit that I was addicted to success.?

Now I am addicted to create impact on the world, to help as many people I can. God gifted me with strength, courage, resourcefulness and energy! I have to follow my calling. I love business and corporate world but this time I am combining it with my passion which is coaching people and companies to be happy. It is not that simple I know but there is a way to find our happiness and I am here to help. I have been poor, eating potatoes for weeks, I have been in the poshest gala in New York, I have been poor again and well off again. I know how you feel either you are a high achiever or not. We have connected achieving with exhausting work. No! We can be a winner and still have a life! WORK LIFE BALANCE!?

Trust me I will be 80 years old and I will still have goals, but my goal now is to support and motivate as many people I can in the world! That’s why I am passionate about Equality, Diversity, Inclusion. We are all in this called life together! Let’s create a better kind world.

Don’t ignore this article today, maybe you were meant to read it. Our life is the summary of moments which moments are time, right? Therefore, that makes TIME the only thing that you have. Let’s make the most of it as long as we have time because we never know when will be the end of it.??

Talk to people talk to your manager if you are not feeling it. People will pleasantly surprise you if you are honest and kind with your communication. Talk to your partner with kindness and he or she will understand. People will surprise you and if they don’t maybe you need to do more decluttering to your relationships.?

Let go whatever is NOT serving your best interest anymore. Be kind and your life will improve tremendously.?

Love yourself and be selfish with your time.

Love& light

Nadia