Welcome to the simple Sophisticate Podcast, where intelligent living is paired with signature style.

I'm your host, Shannon Ables.

And whether you're listening on your commute, exercising, working in the garden, or sitting down with a hot cup of tea or a

cafe ole, thank you for tuning in. Let's get started. The Welcome to the 41st episode of the simple sophisticated. Today we are going to

to talk about letting go and holding on. What do you let go of and what should you hold on no matter where

your life is taking you? I'm going to share with you today 12 things to let go of and six things to hold on to and as we go through this list be considering

why there are 12 and I could probably add many many more items to this list and why

there are only six on the list of things to hold on to.

So just keep that in the back of your mind.

We'll visit that at the end of today's episode.

And be sure to tune in to the end of today's episode as I'll share one of my latest beauty product

discoveries. I'm loving it and after a couple of weeks of using it making sure indeed

it's doing what I thought it would do I want to share it with you so stay. We'll talk about that here at the end of the

episode. All right, but let's get back to what today's episode is all about, what to let

go of and what to hold on to. I want to start off with a favorite quote of mind from

Joseph Campbell he states we must be willing to let go of the life we've

planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

Well, the undeniable life truth remains that change is inevitable,

whether we want it to happen or not, it will.

Even when we seek out change, fervently pursue it in fact, letting

go of certain aspects of life that we've been living and enjoying perhaps can feel as though we are leaving behind our so-called Linus

blanket that comfort that security blanket whether it's the comfort of

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