Franziska Iseli: Hi and welcome back!

Today, I want to share with you one of my all-time favourite principles, and that is the principle of detachment or the principle of non-attachment.

I have to admit, I am certainly a very much of a work in progress on this principle, too. It‘s a principle that I got familiar with a few years ago when I was at a yoga retreat. Actually, a silence retreat for 7 days.

What the principle is all about is that we need to learn to detach from outcomes and we need to learn to detach from things. So, in society, as we live and we go through life, of course, often we get very attached to things. We get attached to experiences, we get attached to people, we get attached to outcomes and we get attached to stuff. It‘s not often very conducive to satisfaction and joy and happiness. The reason why is because we can‘t always control the outcome and we never can control people, and we never should. You always can‘t control, sometimes, what we own. We can only ever control how we behave.

So this principle of detachment is all about detaching from the outcome. How I like to do this is sort of three steps.

The first one is that, you definitely want to have clarity on where you‘re going. In business and in life, you have clarity. You know what you want, you know where you‘re going and you have your goals.

Then, secondly, you give it your all. You give it your all to get there. So you give it your best. Whether that‘s in business or in personal life or in a relationship, you give it your all.

But then number three is the most important one. You detach from the outcome. Why? Because as I mentioned before, this is one of my favourite things to understand is that you can‘t always control the circumstances. You can‘t control if the economy is going up or down. You can‘t control if it‘s sunny or if it‘s raining. So you can‘t control the circumstances but you can always control how you act, how you feel, how you respond. That is detaching from the outcome.

I thought I‘d want to share this with you today. It‘s certainly one of these principles that is very close to my heart because I can see that when I master it, things are very awesome, very light, very joyful. It‘s really interesting to observe your own behaviour when you think about this principle.

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