'When I Let Go of What I Am, I Become What I Might Be'

The future better self we might want to become starts with letting go of current thinking and habits

If we get ourselves into relationship (personal and professional) difficulty and reputation carnage, if we can learn to do something challenging and yet possible, welcomed relief and better days ahead can become the reward.

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be,” is a quote that succinctly and wisely illustrates this point.

This starts, maybe surprising to learn, not with our behavior but our thinking. Our brain, emotions and psychology are the super computer and command center for our actions. To make repairs and corrections in our life and thus, “let go of who I am,” we first must tend to our mental “software,” helping us adjust the behavior habits that are causing difficulty for others, our reputation and ourselves.

Until we accomplish this, on our own or maybe with the professional assistance, there will be no “letting go” to “become what I might be (my best self).”

The letting go can be simple or extremely difficult and seemingly out of reach. It varies from person to person and unique challenge to unique challenge. A reputation that makes a positive way for you through life critically depends on making smart, necessary course corrections.

Those who learn how to do it well and do it regularly earn reputation’s better rewards in different parts of their lives while those who aren’t interested or struggle to learn and successfully implement what is needed don’t earn and keep the reputation that think that they deserve and that they want and likely need, maybe badly so, for what makes life much better.

Michael Toebe is a reputation consultant, advisor and communications specialist at Reputation Quality, assisting individuals and organizations with further building reputation as an asset or ethically protecting, restoring or reconstructing it.

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