Declutter Your Mind for the Coming Year

Get Your Brand New Thought-Patterns for 2010 Here!

Your imagination will become weak through inaction. It can be revived & made alert through use ~Napoleon Hill

All over the world there is a mad rush to organize thoughts that we all hope will make 2010 a better year. Even the Huffington post is getting in on the act!

There’s just enough time to get inside our heads and dream about how we want to progress in the coming year. While you’re more likely to dwell on what you haven’t got now, that you’d like to have, you’re less likely to think about what you have got that is insidiously holding you back.

In the same way that it’s essential to declutter your physical living space in order to free up energy for progress and development, it’s also critical to take a long, hard look at the emotional baggage (clutter) that you may be carrying around, and that may be taking up space and crowding out your positive thoughts and curbing your ability to grow.

Judith’s Story

I’d like to tell you about Judith, a relative of mine. She felt she was unloved. Although her brother and mother tried hard to convince her otherwise, she allowed a tidal wave of anger to grow inside her because she was ’so unloved.’

These feeling began when her father left them when she was only three years old. He married again and never came back. Judith focused on that period of negativity instead of the many positive aspects of her life: her loving mother, talented, fun and affectionate brother, patient husband and gorgeous kids. She allowed her failed relationship with only one of her significant people to poison her entire life. Inevitably she was diagnosed with Cancer and died somewhere around her 48th birthday, sad, alone and in pain–even though she was surrounded by loving family members–because she simply wouldn’t unload her emotional baggage.

Mary Takes Her Life Back!

By contrast, let’s take the story of Mary. She married at sixteen and had two children, leaving her husband because he was a womanizer. She endured her second ‘plodding’ marriage because she didn’t want to have another failed marriage to her credit. Until, that was, she discovered her husband had been molesting her daughter for at least five years. She left at once, not knowing quite how she was going to manage–an uneducated woman with no support and four young mouths to feed. This mountain of negativity would have been enough to crush many women and keep them in failure mode for the rest of their lives.

But Mary was determined that what had happened so far wasn’t going to define her life, or the lives of her children. She got a job as a janitor and worked hard. Soon she was promoted. Instead of paying rent she opted to tighten her belt, live simply and pay the mortgage on a small house she loved. Twenty-five years on she owns her own house, still works part time, now in charge of a team of cleaning staff, and her children have made their way in the world because she set them an unbeatable example:

• You don’t have to put up with people in your life who unethical, unscrupulous or abusive. Don’t do it.
• You CAN go after your dreams if you want. Only your imagination limits you–so liberate your imagination.

What are the thoughts that are holding you back?

It could be that you have so many limiting thoughts that you don’t know where to begin. Start by selecting just one and work on it for a week. For example, if you feel that everything is against you and that you can’t be happy, resolve to look at events in a different light. Look at what happens to you in the course of a day and allow yourself to interpret it in a positive light: above all smile. Do it just for a week and keep notes. At the end of the week–let’s make a date for January 8–come back and leave a comment here to let me know how much difference it made.

You might want to tackle more than one of your limiting beliefs–eventually you’ll find you can manage more because with each one you discard, your own personal energy will be freed up and allowed to create you and your life in their true form.

And remember:

For changes to be of any true value, they have got to be lasting and consistent. ~Tony Robbins

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