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What Are You Holding?

January 25, 2008 by Liz

I've been thinking . . .

about holding. . . . Holding can be a good thing or a bad thing. It depends what we’re holding. If it’s a holding pattern, it’s less than anything — we’re not going anywhere at all.

We need to hold onto our dreams. When we hold them up for the world, we’re more lilely to find the dream become ours.

If we hold tight to a bad thing, we’re held to what we’re holding. Sometimes holding on, only serves to hold us up, by keeping us attached.

man and woman walking on pier

We hold hands. We hold ideas. We hold material things. We hold the power to influence others, and the ability to change the world.

We hold our breath in anticipation. We hold meetings and conversations. We hold each other as we walk through our lives. We hold a memory in our hearts.

I have a feeling that the things worth holding are far larger and far fewer than the things I should let go.

Does that hold true for you?

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Filed Under: Motivation, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, holding-on, Ive-been-thinking, letting-go

Let Go of the Past to Own the Shiny, Bright Future

December 23, 2007 by Liz

I Still Remember When . . .

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Last night I had a conversation with a dear friend. He brought up a relationship that has caused him some pain. I heard him retell a story I’ve heard him tell more than once before . . . only to explain again why what another person did was wrong and manipulative.

While he talked, he had totally lost connection with his smile.

I wondered aloud why he was telling me the story again. He told me it was because what had happened was so wrong. The rest of the conversation went something like this.

“I’m over it now.”

“No, you’re not. If that were true, you wouldn’t be talking about it.”

“I guess you’re right.”

“If you could shift your focus . . .”

“What do you mean?”

“Maybe it’s not about what that person did to you, but how broken that person is to have done that at all.”

“You think I should go see her.”

“No, I think you should quit giving that person power. What if you make it about her and not about you? That event shows the screwy way that she looks at the world. It just happened to be you that got hurt that time. If you let it go, she no longer has any power over you.” . . .

It took me a long, long lifetime to learn what I said in that few sentences there.

It’s the same in business and in life. When we leave bad feelings in the past, we get new power over our future. It’s a good thought to hold during holiday times.

May your future be shiny and bright.

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–ME “Liz” Strauss
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Filed Under: Motivation, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Ive-been-thinking, letting-go, relationships

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