30 of the hardest things you’ll ever have to do

1. Recognize the need for change in your life and actually implement it.
2. Admit that you were wrong.
3. Let yourself grieve.
4. Watch someone you love choose someone else.
5. Walk away from someone you love who, for whatever reason, can’t (or won’t) be what you need.
6. Forgive a friend or partner for hurting you.
7. Wage a personal battle with your mortality.
8. Hurt someone else because it’s what’s best for you.
9. Let go.
10. Acknowledge that you might be unhappy because of something you did or didn’t do.
11. Get up and move forward when you hurt so much that you can’t imagine getting through the day.
12. The right thing when every fibre of your being, every piece of your heart, says not to.
13. Let someone in, trust, without asking them to get through walls, brick, duct tape or barbed wire fences first.
14. Not compare yourself to others.
15. Give a second chance.
16. Let a relationship or friendship grow on its own time, don’t push.
17. Be rejected – at work, in your personal life, maybe even by your own children.
18. Forgive yourself for things you did or didn’t do, for having fear or a lack of courage.
19. Accept evidence that proves someone you love isn’t who you thought they were.
20. Learn that words mean nothing if they are not backed by action.
21. Balance mentoring someone with letting them carve out their own trail.
22. Manage feelings of inadequacy.
23. Be around others who you don’t understand, can’t sympathize with, don’t like.
24. Accept that you can’t make someone’s mind up for them – they, alone, choose.
25. Watch something unfold before you that you can’t stop, can’t do anything about, that makes you feel help(and hope)less.
26. Let go of the idea of “someday” and live for today.
27. Admit that what you thought you wanted, isn’t what you want or what’s best for you.
28. Stop being what someone else thinks you should be.
29. Accept that sometimes you won’t get the answers or reasons you’re looking for.
30. Take a major risk. We talk about them all of the time, about how they’re worth it. But when’s the last time you closed your eyes and jumped?