Letting Go

Something that has been very real to me of late is letting go.
Some things I reckon are really easy to let go of.   It makes sense to me .  It may be a destructive habit.   It may be overeating.  It may be having too much of something that, while ok in moderation, is not good when it is done or taken in excess.  There are many things it makes sense to let go of.
Also I find bitterness and resentment is best let go if.  That one can be harder.  I admit I was feeling resentful of a neighbour who was using our fence as the support for the roof for his chooks.  Not only did the structure extend into our place it was sending water into our place.  I had asked him to deal with it, but nothing had happened for going on four weeks. 
I would let go and take it back again.  I was ready to say that I was going to deal with it from our side.  But low and behold yesterday it was removed.  I feel a bit of a goose.  But I am a happy goose.
Something I really like is that in letting go of things I need to deal with, I face them in “increments of difficulty.”  By that I mean the battles I face I always have enough to have a win.  I don’t always feel like I have enough, but my perception of what I can and can’t do is not necessarily the way it is.  Sometimes I am stronger than what I give myself credit for.
To me that is a real common issue.  So often some say they can’t, when they can.  The basis of the can’t is self-perception rather than the way it is.  But for sure my perception of my abilities affects the outcome.  I remember hearing a saying that I reckon is pretty right.  “believe you can, believe you can’t - either way you will be right.”
The hardest thing for me is letting go of what is ok in itself, but represents a hinderance for what I want to do.  I have used the illustration before, but it is like an athlete who forgoes say chocolate or pizzas for a time.  There is noting wrong with either in moderation but they are counter-productive to certain achievements
This letting go thing is a bottom line thing for me.  There was a saying popular several decades ago that said something like, “let it go, if it comes back to you, it is yours, and if not it was never meant to be.”  It is not about my plans for me, but someone who knows me “better than I know myself ,“ plans for me.