It’s so easy to keep doors open, believing that what we want will eventually come through them. And yet we also wonder if it’s time to close them because we’re keeping other doors from opening. I believe this is also more challenging when we’ve been working hard and don’t feel that we’ve created enough momentum to close the door and take a chance that something will happen.
With the change of the calendar, I might be more aware of this than usual. I’ve had several things I’ve been trying to make happen– usually involving other people which always seems to be the reason they don’t happen and why I’m always hesitant to take on projects that involve others– and no matter how much I try, they aren’t moving forward.
Yet I don’t want to close the doors because I’ve invested not just time and money, but some of myself into these projects as well. I’m also sensing that it’s better to let go, that maybe I’m keeping other doors from opening. I’ve started to make steps to closing the doors– not outright announcing they are shut, but putting things away that are related to those projects and, quite honestly, putting them out of my mind.
Sometimes with a “soft close”– letting go– things do come back. And if they don’t, one day I’ll run across something relating to them and see it’s time to shut those doors for good because I’ll be too busy with something new, something that came along because I let those doors shut so new ones could open.