Perhaps the most significant lessons of my life have revolved around the recovery movement’s slogan: “Let Go and Let God”—a notion that involves relinquishing Ego’s attachment to, or fear of, something. One of the most pronounced attachments for most of us during our lives is being right! There’s nothing Ego loves more than being right, which makes it an essential and rewarding attachment in the process of letting go.

 I seriously doubt that anyone is reading this who hasn’t engaged in arguing about trivial matters that turned into disagreements, which had a net effect of following a road of self-righteous anger. And all of it probably seemed to be for no reason other than the desire, or need, to be right! Eventually, we may look back with wistful amusement, realizing now that our fear of actually being wrong was so intense that another person’s opinion could energize this unwanted feeling. Ego’s compulsion is to be right no matter what, a highly effective maneuver that distracts us from achieving a real purpose in our lives. The good thing is, letting go of an attachment to being right can be a fairly simple exercise.

 So how can you choose to let go and let God in the quest to eliminate your attachment to being right? You can handle it with these simple words spoken to another—You’re right about that. It stems from a soulful decision you make that you’ll always choose to be kind when given a choice between being right and being kind. Saying “you’re right about that” will gradually open the entry point to a road that leads through letting go and letting God and experiencing a more meaningful life.

Part of the meaning we gain by letting go is a movement toward real contentment. Most stress in our lives results from hanging on to beliefs that keep us striving for more because Ego stubbornly believes we need it. When we make the shift away from attachment, the influence of our Ego fades. We replace attachment with contentment. Chasing and striving—and then becoming attached to what we chased after—is a source of anxiety that feeds Ambition, but it usually doesn’t satisfy the need for meaning at our soul level.