It's Never too Late to Say Goodbye

We as women are nurturers by nature. We love to care for and nurture people and sometimes even things and it has run us into the ground. We have not trained ourselves to let go and sometimes we’re not really sure that we even want to. It’s who we are, but we must try to let go of those things that we have tried to care for and tried to nurture when it begins to stunt our growth and weigh on our thoughts – causing a misdirection of our destiny. It’s never too late to say goodbye to the hurt and the pain that has attached itself to our emotions. It’s never too late. We can break old bad thought processes and develop new good ones; we can learn to think on those things that lift us up and push us forward. We can start fresh after that failed business or bombed out relationship.

It’s never too late. As women we are responsible for much and much is required of us and because of this, we have developed ways to get through and subsequently begin to learn to live with the hurt and the pain – having it reside in us by keeping it alive. We must learn how to say goodbye to the things of the past that has hurt us and has inconspicuously kept us from reaching our full potential and has brought down our self worth – we didn’t even realize it was happening. We are far too valuable and resourceful to continue to permit the same things to stress us and pull us away from reaching our full potential – we won’t let go and we won’t say goodbye.

How can one run a race and reach their destiny when they are overcome with weights – they can’t unless they remove or take off the weights. Your greatest accomplishments and successes are waiting to be released but its’ hindered from doing so because you won’t let go and won’t say goodbye. It’s not too late to say goodbye. Let us clean our house (our hearts and minds) so that we can give permission for success, joy, self love and worth to come in. If you don’t – it won’t. It’s never too late to say goodbye. Can you start anew and start a fresh today? We are woman!

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Wednesday's "We Are Woman" column is created by Doreen Washington. Doreen resides in Newport News, VA.  She is the author of her newest book, We Are Woman, an inspiring book that speaks to women about their strength, value and victories. Her next book, Trapped - Learning to live free while waiting for romance and marriage, will hit book stores in early 2010.

Doreen is also the Founder and Executive Director of The FACE Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that focuses its resources on assisting single working mothers.  While writing is a passion of hers, she also finds time to devote the her local chapter as the president of the National Association of Professional Women (NAPW). You can visit Doreen's blog at www.doreenwashington.blogspot.com.