Sandbags

Recently, I’ve been using the phrase “Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life”, which often prompts me to have a different perspective on situations by way of analogies.

The Sandbag analogy helped me put things into perspective and putting self first through placing boundaries that are set to help me maintain my peace. A boundary isn’t you being malicious. A boundary is something you set in place to let people know what you will not tolerate in your life as it may disrupt your peace. The peace you worked so hard to create, maintain, and elevate.

Analogy: Imagine your hanging outside of a hot air-ballon, and around your waist are ropes with sandbags on the end. All ranging in different length and weight. As you try to pull yourself up to get inside, you can’t from the weight of all the sandbags. You contemplate on cutting off the ones that no longer serve you, but you pause, mainly a feeling of “the bad guy” waves through you. That thought is what’s really standing in-between you and the scissors cutting through.

If you look at releasing things that no longer serve you, can you visualize the picture of you not being able to progress and evolve in life if you hang on to the things/people/situations that no longer serve you; because of what society will think of you? But the only opinion that matters on your path is yours.

Life is about evolution. How can you elevate holding on to things/people/situations that no longer serve your higher being, keeping you from putting yourself first and in true alignment with your path.

Cut the sandbags and elevate.

A Different Perspective.