Selling. Quitting. Deleting. Saying no. Walking away.
But perhaps there is another version.
Loosening your grip without throwing the thing away.
We build all sorts of things over a lifetime. Businesses, relationships, skills, ideas, systems, connections and projects.
Just because something no longer gets most of our time does not mean it has lost its value.
Perhaps something we have built can carry on without our standing over it all day.
I find this a little difficult.
Especially when you have a strong sense of responsibility. Then it is easy to confuse being responsible with having to manage everything yourself.
I am not sure I have fully learned this yet.
But I find the question useful:
What in my life genuinely needs me, and what simply needs to be allowed to stand on its own?