Welcome to my annual 12 Day Holiday Event on my blog. This year the featured topic is 12 Days of Joy. Experience more joy in your life every day for 12 days. Bring in more happiness, freedom and success over the next 12 days. Each day I will share ideas on how you can truly live a more joy filled life – in your personal life and your professional life. Please share your comments each day. I will be holding a drawing for a $50 Amazon gift card at the end of the 12 days. Every time you comment, your name will go into the drawing.  And I will also be sprinkling in some free gifts and some awesome deals on my courses and coaching.

Day 1 Bring more joy into your life by letting the past go.  Do you ever wish that your parents were more loving? Or maybe  do you wish you didn’t grow up in financial struggle? Or that your parents stayed together? Or that you went to the college of your choice? Or that you would have chosen a different mate? Or that you would have made different decisions in your career and life? and so on…

Anytime, you say the words, “I wish” or “Could have” or “Would have” or “Should have”, you allow something other than the present moment to control you.

“The past has no power over the present moment.”
Eckhart Tolle.

I love this quote. Your life is what you make it right now. It’s a moment by moment choice. Every person has a choice to make – stay stuck in the past and blame the past or take responsibility and make your moment right now, a great one.

Most people have something painful in the past, but making a decision to let it go and make a difference now, is a pivotal point in your journey. Letting the past go allows freedom to rush in and often you will also feel a rush of love in your heart for yourself and others.

Letting go of the past will bring more joy to your holiday celebrations. As the anger of past hurts melts away, you are free to truly celebrate and be present with each other. If nothing else happened, but you merely let go of the past and chose to live today as best you can, you have probably taken the biggest step you can take in your life.

Holding a grudge or any other bad feeling is a happiness and prosperity blocker. If you want more business, better opportunities, a better job,and more, decide right now to let go of the past. If someone said to you, “You can have everything you want in life, if you just let go of your stories about the past.” Would you be willing? Absolutely.

 

You probably find it easy to see it when someone else is stuck in the past, but it is harder to see it in yourself. Take a quick pulse check on your own life. When you think about your goals, why haven’t you accomplished them yet? Notice the reasons you give. This will give you clues to the hold your past may have on you. If you say, “I am not good with money because no one taught me” or “My business partner cheated me” or “my spouse cheated on me”, “my parents were crazy,” etc… you will start to see a pattern.  If you assign reasons (excuses) other than you haven’t done it yet, you are hanging on to a past story.

When I nearly died this past summer, I learned to let go of the story of illness. I needed to see myself as well and had to stop focusing on the scary experience of ICU. I taught myself to define myself in a way that transcended the serious health condition that I faced. I remember saying, “I am more than what it says on these pieces of paper” when I left the hospital with hundreds of pages of diagnosis. How did I want to live my life? I wanted to live in this moment. I wanted to live and life fully, with joy and happiness.

Recently, my family attended the Denver Zoo Lights Event. We walked around for an hour and half in a magical world of lights and animals. Just the fact that I walked with everyone a mere five months after my hospitalization is a miracle. My hubby (of over 20 years) and I shared a smooch in the pic below:

Stop identifying yourself with the past. Start your new story right now.

Journal prompt: What’s my new story?

I would love to hear how you let go of a past story. 

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Happy Holidays

Sheri Kaye Hoff

Coach, Trainer, and Author, Sheri Kaye Hoff, is a Business Coach known for inspiring massive action and a catalyst for personal and business growth, joy, and profits in a way that is fun, relaxing, and fulfilling, Sheri inspires people to do the work they love and make more money. Sheri helps business owners and professionals to relax into success. She uses both spiritual and practical techniques to obliterate blocks and create dramatic change. She is a business, leadership, happiness, and inner game expert. She has overcome nearly dying, and the loss of her brother at an early age. She has made it her life mission to discover the keys to happiness and success and then share them with her clients and community. Learn More About Sheri