Hi friends. Welcome to the Wabi-Sabi podcast. This is episode number 171. I hope you enjoyed episode

170, one of my favorite episodes of all time with chef Cynthia Sistido. It is true that

Cynthia and I cooked for J-Z and Beyonce for many years, her far longer than I.

It was a great learning curve and good experience.

And since it was so long ago, it's nice to sort of take a look back and see how far her and I have come since that time in our lives.

Today, we will talk about how I know what you need

to get to the next level and I know what you need to do in order to progress and that is the

practice of letting go. A lot of times we just don't want to let go of the life that we have at this

moment of things that we have become successful or good at, or even the partners that you've chosen in life or the friends or accolades or colleagues that you want to be around.

These are things that bring us comfort. And sometimes when you are too comfortable, you remain really stagnant.

And the fall is a really good time for you to shift the energy in your life so that we know where we're going.

Take a deep breath in and take a deep breath out.

Okay. and take a deep breath out. There is a spiritual figure in Hinduism that I love called Ganesh.

And Ganesh is the elephant with its right hand raised. and he is actually a man with an elephant's head.

Very good story behind it. He's the remover of obstacles in our life.

I often sometimes keep a picture or a little figure of Ganesh on my dresser so that I can look at him every day and remember that

I too can remove obstacles in my life and you can too. A lot of it has to do with like letting go

shifting thoughts and letting go of old patterns that just don't serve us anymore. I know that you have a lot

of self-doubt and fear and the fear of failure and that

things haven't always gone your way, but you're going to be able to move through these things.

As Dr. Wayne Dyer says, you can't look at the wake. You have to look forward. Otherwise, you're

going to keep living in the past.

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