21: How do you know when it's time to let go?
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Welcome to episode 21 of Permission to be Messy. I'm your host, JoAnn Krall and today I'm talking about the question. How do you know when it's time to let go?
This is a question that I help my clients work through all the time. But it's also something that I've been struggling with for, I'm not even quite sure how long.
Knowing when to let go. That could be about a person. It could be about physical things. For me specifically, it's been all around business.
If you listen to last week's episode, I talked about how I was letting go of my three programs that I've been selling for almost about seven years, their individual programs about decluttering. And I love those programs. And while I'm letting them go in the sense that I'm not going to be marketing them and selling them separately. The information and the processes are going to be rolled into my membership. So I'm saying goodbye on one hand, but at the same time, I'm not fully letting go of them.
But as I was going through that process, I started to wonder, if I should still be helping people get organized. I've been doing that as a business because I was doing it before I was in business, but. As a business I've been doing that since 2006.
Like almost 17 years, it'll be 17 years. This August. And while that has evolved over time, I started out as a home organizer. I started working. with more businesses. Then I started working with a lot of people who had lost, loved ones. Then it kind of got back to businesses.
But it was really mostly about home organization.
One thing I knew that I was really good at was helping people with paper back in the day and then moving on to digital. So I was really good at helping people let go of their information and declutter it and get it into organized place.
So when I decided to go all virtual, I knew I wanted to work with business owners, specifically people who worked from home So I could help them get organized in their home, their business and their lives. And while that has been wonderful and I'm not letting go of that. Let me first say that. So if you're a client of mine, do not worry. This is not changing. I'm still going to keep this aspect of my business.
My membership is still going to be geared towards, home business and life organization. And towards business owners. but what I'm adding to my suite of offerings is going to be helping people start online businesses. Specifically people who want to teach other people how to do something. So whether somebody wants to become a coach or they just want to teach something. and whether they want to do that through online courses or whether they want to do it live. I really want to help people get into this business.
Over the years many people have been asking me why don't you do that? And I'm like, cause that's not what I do. I'm a professional organizer.
And, youI think they would hear how passionate I was about online business and talking about all the things that I do. And they're like, how did you learn all that? And it's hours and hours of learning. And I thought na na, that's not what I do. I help people get organized. And, so I've heard that many times over the past 10 years.
And I happen to be talking to my husband about it just one night and the very next day, somebody reached out to me. Not to start a new business, but for help on their business. And it is something that I do. I help people currently, anybody who purchases, or signs up with Kajabi with me gets, help.
But I'm seeing now more and more signs. One of them was I signed up for a summit with all these people, talking about how they help people with their businesses. And everything I listened to. I said, I know that. I know that. I know that. And I thought, and I know so much more. And so to me that was a sign that I need to make this an offering.
So, how does that apply to letting go? I think it was me letting go of the resistance again, hearing people say, why don't you teach people how to do this? Like you know so much.
And I think part of my hesitation has always been that I have surrounded myself with people who are brilliant at helping others start business, I'm connected to people who have been doing it a long time and they know their stuff. And, I thought, no, that's not me. I can't do that.
But when I really sit down and think about it, I totally can. I've learned from the best. I've been doing it for 10 years, I've learned what works, what doesn't work. what could possibly work for another business that might not work for mine? And when I look back, I think about I made a post on Facebook asking people, if you could teach anything, what would you teach people? And I had so many people reach out to me. That aren't already in the online space. And I thought. There's your sign. There's another sign. So all the signs have been there.
I'll talk about this along the way as I make this transition. But. What I want to talk about is the actual question. How do you know when it's time to let go? So in other episodes, I've talked about, letting go of physical things, the questions you can ask and all of that.
But when we're talking about something that's, non-tangible. Like maybe a job or maybe. You have a business and you want to let it go or just anything that isn't a physical item. Trust your gut. And this is for me as much as it is for anybody who needs to hear this. But. Trust your gut and really pay attention to those signs. Because in this, me getting all woo, but they were there. They were there all along. Now I don't take people telling me that I should be doing it necessarily as a sign. But when certain things happen, for example, having a conversation with my husband about it, and then the very next day somebody calling me. Or me deciding to just randomly make a post on Facebook. I don't know where that came from. I just, it was like, I wonder if, if I asked this question,
Clearly I was pointing towards something. And then me signing up for a summit that I really didn't need to sign up for because it's stuff. I know. Sometimes I'll sign up because you might get that one nugget that you haven't learned before. But I knew all of it and I think it was like it. I just kept hearing that over and over again. This, you know, this, you've got this.
So trust your judgment.
And sometimes we just have to let go. And then it'll all become clear. Cause that's what I did it wasn't like I said, oh, here's this sign, here's the sign. I let go of those programs. And just within a week, all of this evolved. And I was like, wow, it's I let go of something. I'd let go of something that I've been holding on to. And then all of a sudden this new stuff came in, even though I had been thinking about it.
It's almost like I gave myself the permission to let the other things go and it just opened everything up for me.
So nothing super profound today, but I really wanted to just have that stream of consciousness and get those thoughts out there because I know somebody out there is listening and it's thinking about letting go of something, whether it's something physical, whether it's letting go of
a toxic person or just maybe, switching jobs or something like that.
And my hope is that it helps you.
So I hope you follow me along this journey. It's going to be really fun. Obviously. I'm still going to be talking about all things organizing. I will never stop helping people get organized, cause it really lights me up. But what I have learned over the past week is that helping people with their businesses also lights me up. So I'm not becoming a business coach. I'm really going to be, thinking about how, what I actually see. I don't even know exactly what I'm going to be offering. I have an inkling.
So I'm taking this time over the summer. To map things out. I'm actually going to use my own action plan course, which I'll put the link in the notes. That's actually the only thing that I'm selling right now, everything else has been put on pause. And again, if you get into that, you get to come to monthly group coaching calls for as long as I run them. So you may want to check that out
And as always, I'm wishing you much productivity, peace, prosperity, and the permission to be messy. Thanks for listening.
