{"id":1256,"date":"2010-12-22T07:00:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2016-02-02T09:33:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T14:33:05","slug":"extra-letting-go-of-intangibles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/extra-letting-go-of-intangibles\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra: Letting Go Of Intangibles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-nothing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-422\" src=\"http:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Stuff-nothing-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Stuff-nothing\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>As I continue to look around my home and consider what more to part with, I often feel some pride in cleaning things out or virtue in passing stuff on to those in need. As I dig more deeply into this process, however, I realize that a bigger challenge is to let go of bad habits, pride, and emotional stuff that keeps me focused on myself or feeling self-righteous. This is the more spiritual side of letting go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Following are some things I\u2019m struggling to let go of<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Being right, my opinions (Spouses are helpful for tempering the notion that my way is the right way, but still, the discipline of trying to see a debate from the other side is an exercise in the \u201cspirit of poverty.\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Judgments, criticisms, complaining about others (Sometimes I read or listen to programs by commentators that I strongly disagree with. I thought it would be an exercise in trying to understand other\u2019s opinions. Actually, I just got angrier. I decided it\u2019s not healthy for me to listen to inflammatory rhetoric. It just feeds my urge to criticize and feel hopeless. Better to focus on doing something positive.)<\/li>\n<li>Control, wanting things MY way and quickly (I experienced this with my upcoming book and wanting to micro-manage the layout, title, etc. I\u2019m also big on saving time which sometimes means controlling the pace at which others work.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Yet, there are some intangibles that I <em>should<\/em> hold on to<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Complimenting others on their talents and developing my own talents<\/li>\n<li>Smiling at strangers, keeping secrets (unless someone is is danger)<\/li>\n<li>Generous Tipping (This is hard for me since I\u2019m such a tightwad. I have to make a special effort to remember that waiters\/waitresses are usually paid low wages.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I continue to look around my home and consider what more to part with, I often feel some pride in cleaning things out or virtue in passing stuff on to those in need. As I dig more deeply into this process, however, I realize that a bigger challenge is to let go of bad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beyond-stuff","tag-intangibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3645,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions\/3645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanvogt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}