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Making Room for What You Want in Life: Letting Go to Grow

January 3, 2014 by Rose 3 Comments

 

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There is a finite amount of time, energy and money in your life. 

There are only 24 hours in each day. The money or credit that you have right now is limited.  The amount of energy that you have to participate in life is limited.

We all have our individual limits of each of these resources. You might have less energy than a friend or you might have more time to use because you don’t need as much sleep as the average. Whatever it might be, YOU have a limit.

Admittedly, there are ways we each trade one resource for another.  You can trade sleep for time but by not sleeping enough you are dipping into your energy resources.  You can trade money for time and energy by paying someone to clean your house, watch your kids, write your book…but in the end there are still only 24 hours in each day and there is no way money can buy you out of those limitations.

Each one of us makes daily decisions regarding how we are going to spend our precious resources.  There are experts who specialize in teaching you to make, save and spend your money the best way possible.  Experts who focus on saving for retirement, experts who focus on living life to the fullest in the moment, and ones who try to teach ways to balance the two goals out.

There are efficiency experts to help you manage your time, to get more done in less time, to manage your to-do list so you have more time with your family and friends, to save time being organized and these are certainly  of importance to me.

However, the thing that is missing in these conversations is ENERGY.  Everything in our lives also takes our energy.  Whether it is walking the dog, taking care of the our homes, planning our retirement, cooking dinner, going to work or writing a blog (like I am doing now); all of these tasks require your energy.

Some tasks, especially ones that you have done often, only take the energy required to do that specific task.  Walking the dog becomes routine once you’ve done it for years. This task only requires the energy to actually perform the action.

This is not true for tasks that are new to us.  Writing this blog is one example.  I need to generate the energy to actually contemplate what I want to say.  I can’t just sit down and write a blog.  I roll each of these ideas around in my mind until my main idea coalesces and rises to the top.

Writing has always been something that I defined as a task I did not excel at. Over the last year, as I work on my coaching business, each time I needed to write something for the first time I had to spend some energy just convincing myself I could write well. I needed to talk my brain out of finding distractions and push forward. Only then was I able to sit down and write.  Writing a blog, for me, takes much more energy than the energy it took to sit down and write this out today.

With that in mind…What do you need to let go of, at least for a little while, to allow yourself the energy to accomplish the goals on your intention or resolution list, making 2014 your best year yet? 

We all manage, every day, to fill up the 24 hours that we are given and we find the energy that goes along with those hours.  If you are going to do something new and different for yourself this year then something else has to be let go of, at least until your mind, body and spirit are trained for the new activity.

Could you stop watching TV or only watch for 2 hours a week?  Could you take the bus into work so that you can read and/or work during your commute?  Could you enlist the people in your home to plan or make more of the meals? Could you stop saying yes to every request for your assistance, instead focusing on yourself in the moment?

What are you going to let go of? 

I am choosing to trade out some of the electronic brain-teaser games that I like to play at night and instead reading one of the many books on my nightstand and in my Kindle that I’ve been wanting to read.

Leave me a comment below and let me know what you think about these ideas. If you like them let me know what you might choose to give up in order to make 2014 your best year yet.

Join us on all kinds of social media as we make 2014 the Best Year Yet with #2014BYY. Join the Mindfully Organized Challenge Group to make 2014 awesome!

 

 

Filed Under: 2014 Best Year Yet ~ #2014BYY, Balanced Living Inner Circle, Mindfulness, Organization Tagged With: Downsizing, Lessons Learned In Life, mindfulness, simplify, thoughts

Do You Want to Please Everyone?

April 30, 2013 by Rose 5 Comments

Being Mindful:

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”

~Bill Cosby

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One of my biggest lessons learned in life is that not everyone will like you, no matter what you do! It is more important to be the best person you can be and not to worry too much about the people who still don’t like you or what you do.

That is not to say that you should not contemplate whether or not there is something you could do better. We can all get better. However, sometimes there is nothing you should change. Some people just don’t click with each other.

Letting go of perfectionism in relationships is powerful.  Let’s live mindfully!

What do you think?  How or when did you learn that you shouldn’t try to please everyone?

Filed Under: Mindfulness Tagged With: Big Lessons, Human Behavior, Learned, Lessons Learned In Life, Mind, mindfulness, perfectionism, simplify, Want to Please Everyone?

Definitions Are Powerful

April 5, 2013 by Rose 2 Comments

Definitions Are Powerful

Do you have someone who is hard to deal with and is in your life for a reason by circumstance and not by choice? Like maybe your kids are friends with their kids?

What would happen if, just in your head, nowhere else, you redefined that person as not a friend but an acquaintance? Would that make their behavior easier to deal with?

This technique has worked for me in the past. My expectations for acquaintances are much lower than my expectations for friends. These people don’t know that they are reclassified, but my brain does.

That makes all the difference.

What do you think? Would this work for you?

Filed Under: Mindfulness Tagged With: De-stress, mindfulness, simplify, thoughts

NeatDesk Desktop Scanner

April 5, 2013 by Rose 2 Comments

I am loving our NeatDesk scanner! When my fiance purchased this last year I wasn’t convinced that it was a time saver, then I started to see the light.
Your scanned receipts are searchable by vendor, date, amount.
The documents that are cluttering up your desk because you may need them one day…converted into 1s and 0s to be found with a quick search if you ever do need them.

Sooo Cool!

Filed Under: Downsizing, Organization, Products I Love Tagged With: Downsizing, NeatDesk, Organizing, Reducing Paper, simplify

“You can be Happy No Matter What: Five Principles for Keeping Life in Perspective” by Richard Carlson, PhD

October 28, 2012 by Rose Leave a Comment


Richard Carlson is the author of the well known book “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff” which I remember loving when I read it long ago. When I saw “You Can Be Happy No Matter What” at the local Barnes and Noble, I grabbed it. (That store is dangerous for me, go there for a meeting, leave with 5 books.)

I wanted to love this book.  I really did, and in some ways, I do.  The simple yet difficult to truly understand concepts in this book (not letting the low moods and stress that your brain creates affect you) are powerful.  I do believe more people need to understand that it is their brain that makes them sad, angry or experience other emotions, not things outside of themselves. I was first exposed to this concept in my 20’s and it has changed my life.

However, I found the book to be too simplistic in several ways.  First, the five main concepts are repeated in various ways without enough real, concrete examples to expand the reader’s understanding.  The examples that are presented are both short and simplistic.  Were I not a follower of William Glasser and his Choice Theory I am not sure I would have been fully able to absorb what Dr. Carlson was trying to share with the reader.

The second and more important problem with the book is that Dr. Carlson downplays the importance of traditional therapy and addiction treatments.  While I understand that living in the present is an important part of improving our everyday outlook, I completely disagree with not reflecting on the past.  There is both power and wisdom in understanding our past behaviors and figuring out how to change our unhealthy behavior patterns.

If you don’t have major problems and can’t figure out why you still aren’t happy this quick read could help.  However there are many other books explaining similar concepts more effectively.

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Books, mindfulness, simplify, thoughts

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