MaXIMIze - Spring Cleaning

"You can't reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday's junk." ~ Louise Smith

It seems only appropriate with the turning of the season from Winter to Spring that we focus on cleaning out and letting go of that which no longer serves us in order to lay the groundwork to sow the seeds of our best life now.

Just as we get annual physical and periodic dental and eye exams, so too should we take stock of and excise where necessary our emotional and psychological baggage.

If you've ever read Cheryl Richardson's book Take Time for Your Life, then you've seen this theme run through her writing as well. And as I said in my post from July 19, 2013 on my previous blog, as we move up the spiral staircase to our highest, most MaXIMIzed life, we must leave behind those things - ideas, habits, thoughts, people, situations - that no longer serve us, and in some cases are pulling us down the bannister back toward the bottom step.

In order to do this, we must inventory and acknowledge that which we currently have and take stock of it - ask the question of what is still truly serving us by helping us achieve our goals and what is holding us back by directing energy away from our goals.

We can MaXIMIze our lives by minimizing the baggage we carry through them - both physically and otherwise. Sometimes though, we need to work through the otherwise to be able to minimize our physical baggage.

Once we identify those things, thoughts, and beliefs hat are holding us back, we can work to disengage ourselves from them by removing physical reminders and replacing them with things, thoughts, and beliefs that fulfill us and lead us to achieving our goals.

Those things that are holding us back are the darkness in our life, and those things that fulfill us and lead us to achieving our goals are the light in our life. So, we need to close the door on the darkness and always face and move toward the light.

Next week, we will discuss sowing the seeds to grow our best life now.

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Until next time, happy cleansing and namaste!