give up.

unicornology:

tarts:

Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem. Sometimes the smartest choice is giving up.

Give up trying to be cool.

Give up wanting to be a famous musician, artist, architect, thinker, writer, whatever-it-is. Maybe it’s smarter to make your purpose to have an impact, instead.

Give up trying to be perfect.

Give up keeping relationships with people you don’t really like.

Give up trying to be important. (Focusing on community is usually more fulfilling.)

Give up achieving a lot of ego-driven goals.

Give up trying to be super-focused. Sometimes the most compelling ideas come from the most messy, unexpected sources.

Give up trying to be indie.

Give up caring about owning a lot of cool things, which keep you distracted from acknowledging that you don’t like what you’re doing with your life.

Give up trying to have a perfectly organized workspace and a zero inbox.

With that said, there are a lot of ways we think we’re doing good, but we’re really not.

Give up trying to be super happy all the time. Instead, settle for being peaceful.

Give up needing a reason to share your love. Being alive is reason enough.

Give up trying to be everything to everyone.

Give up caring about being the smartest, best and fastest. At least don’t let your ego get caught up in it.

Give up trying to be ultra productive, especially if productivity is making you miserable.

Give up caring about having a respectable job, a respectable resume, and a respectable life. Replace following a template, with freestyling life.

Give up trying to constantly improve yourself. Sometimes too much self improvement can cause you to lose sight of the present.

Give up trying to always find interesting experiences and interesting things to do. Alternatively, be interesting and be interested.

Give up trying to live up to the expectation of yourself.

Trying to make things happen all the time creates a lot of unnecessary anxiety. It’s stressful trying to deny what is.

Most of these problems only exist within our minds. They’re not real physical problems; they’re simply psychic, imagined obstacles.

It’s interesting how we seem to have so many problems, so many dilemmas. But most of the time the answer to solving them is doing nothing. Giving up.

This is a refreshing perspective that I really needed, especially now. Good things will happen if you let them — stop trying so hard.