90. L.I.G or Lig
Sometimes phrases help me out. Sometimes they are able to interrupt something that I really don’t want to be doing. And this is one I’m newly adopting. It’s for those times when I am going on and on about something and getting nowhere. It’s for those times when I’m obsessing and repeating myself and I can hear the echo of my own words. Often I am being critical either of others or of myself. I might be alone or I might be with someone else, or even with a group, but I sound like a broken record where the needle on the old victrola just goes back over again and again and again.
The new phrase I’m trying to remember to say to myself is: Lig. And sometimes I have to repeat it in all capital letters: LIG. With two or three exclamation marks!!! If I can break through the words that I’m going on and on about, and if I can hear myself, then I get the message: Let. It. Go.
Plain and simple—quit obsessing, quit moving your mouth Ann and Let It Go.
LIG !!!
