For many years I thought of myself as a control freak. I wore it as a badge of honor. It was one of my many forms of precious planning. Evidence that I cared. Cared more about everything and everyone.

You don’t get it, I’m a control freak.

Along the way, I would hear things like, “Let it go. Turn it over. Let go and let [fill in the blank].”

When you are in the misery of being under the order of control, all of those will bring relief, but they won’t solve the problem.

If you want to solve the problem — the problem of being under the order of control – you have to KEEP IT.

Look, I am going to level with you. IF I ever had control of you or anyone else, I would NEVER let go. Maybe I would give you an afternoon off every once in a while, but I would never let the control go.

Fortunately, thebossissupergenerous and has provided us with very little control. Unfortunately, we are overflowing with the delusion that we have control over people, places, and things.

A delusion is a lie I tell myself.

What I need to let go of — what I need to turnover — is the lie that I have control.

And that’s putting things in their proper order.