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We tend to look at piles and heaps and think that decluttering just means getting organized again, right?

But, the cold-hard-truth is that decluttering just isn’t about moving your possessions around so that they fit better; it is about coming to terms with the issues “under” your stuff.  Those emotions, grief, loss, fears, safety and security issues, etc. that make us pile and stack and “trance out” like zombies so that we don’t “just do it” one more day, month and decade.

This is true not only for physical “stuff” clutter and things, but weight and relationships and other “stuck” places. Deal with the “inner clutter” in your mind and emotions and you’ll be amazed at what falls away easily and effortlessly and what gets organized or moved out more quickly. 

WHAT DO YOU WANT? 

The big reason to get to the bottom of the pile of emotional back-logged clutter you have about whatever issues you have in your life is that the energy of the clutter that surrounds you is actually suppressing your ability to acknowledge your deepest desires - and furthermore, to act on them.  The driving force in our lives are our priorities. Priorities give us the necessary focus to make plans, decisions and get things done.

Set your priorities today. Write them down. Notice what emotions show up as you “get serious” about your life, purpose and direction. Face those emotions with honesty and whatever emotions surface to release them (declutter inner stuckness) so that you can move forward.

EFT

I can help you with this on a one-to-one basis if you are interested. I offer Focused Life Coaching using EFT - Emotional Freedom Technique, to help you release the blocks from your mind and body more quickly. Click here to find out more.

To be a conscious creator we need to be aware of our intentions, attentions and actions. The key here is starting to think, know, believe, intend and act upon what you WANT, not what you DON'T WANT.Our minds naturally go for the negative, the don't want. "I don't want to gain weight!" Instead of , "I want to stay at the weight I am." Or, better yet, "I love being the weight I am and will do what it takes to stay here!"Being proactive is paramount in setting your New Year's Goals and Intentions. Set your DO WANTS now!

I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s. 
~ Henry Moore

Get out your colored pens and pencils and make your first or your fiftieth end-of-year gratitude list!

Never done one before? Great time to start!

It’s just too easy to let another year slide by and forget all of the good that has come into our lives, and all the good that we’ve done. Making daily gratitude lists are a good place to review and find the nuggets that you want to include.

This is a great exercise in remembering all the good in life, in your life, and even better, to take this good feeling into your new next year!

Make the time to sit and reflect over 2009 and be grateful, thankful, appreciative and kindhearted to yourself and your life experiences.

The good you get out of this will also be very helpful as you decide who you want to be for the next 365 days!

“To be alive is the biggest fear humans have.
Death is not the biggest fear we have;
our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -
the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”
~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

To be or not to be . . . Shakespeare knew the deal hundreds of years ago. Sacrates said, “Know thyself” more than just a few hundred years ago.

To “know thyself” means to know that you are a risk-taker. You’ve been risking to gain knowledge, tell your truth, live your way, strive and change every day of your life! However, to really know how to live a life and lifestyle that feels balanced as well as carries the action and momentum to create a life you really love takes risk.

Risk is the crossroads of who we are, the potential of who we can be and the human will and discipline to take the action to move in a new direction or higher level to be, do and have what we want.

What do you really want? Answer this honestly (which most people don’t) and you’ll find that place where the wall of fear and the wall of courage collide; they will ask you to do one thing: RISK.

What is your “it?”

If you knew you could have it, get it, create it . . . now . . . what would it be?

Write it out on 3 X 5 cards and keep it in front of you daily. Think it. Feel it. See it. Smell it. Hear it. Taste it. Know it.

Risk to be anew, even in the smallest of ways, and see what shows up!

Write down one risk that will change your life for the better right now. Can you see yourself doing it? Can you see it already done? Take the action on it today, even the smallest of steps.

If you get stuck, if you need help organizing your thoughts and ideas or being accountable to your dreams and goals, I’d love to help you.

I can coach you, and/or you can join the SOLUTIONS THINK TANK and where my team will work with you to get the massive help you need to start, move and finish your project or idea.

Leave a comment here or CLICK HERE and let us know how we can help you.

Where are you stuck? Where are you not risking to change, to evolve and to experience a new life? The life where you’ll be more of “you” in every moment.

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3 Ways You Can Make a Fortune with Your Hidden Ideas

Do you have an idea, dream, goal or desire that keeps “bugging you?”

Declutter it now! Get it organized and humming!
 
Write down at least 3 of them right now. Aren’t they just great?
 
But, have you noticed, that there are waaaaay too many other things that keep taking up your time and effort, and you keep putting off shining your light on your cool idea or important goal? Have you noticed too that time keeps slipping away?
 
Did you know that right now you’re sitting on a potential fortune with your hidden and undeveloped ideas . . . and that there are at least 40 other people who have the same idea or concept that you have?
 
How can you get your idea “out there” - before them? Before you have to hear yourself say, “Oh, look! It’s out there and I had that idea years ago!”

This is where the handy-dandy 80/20 Rule I talk about often with my clients comes into play.
 
THE 80/20 RULE
20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results,

20% of your customers will account for 80% of your sales,

20% of your products or services will account for 80% of your profits, and

20% of your tasks will account for 80% of the most important value of what you do. 

I want to help you do more of the 20% in your life to get your idea, dream, goal or desire out of your head or unfinished state and into the world!

What do you need?
 - Are you missing a plan?
 - Idea development?
 - Brainstorming?
 - Support?
 - Accountability to get it done?

Most people need solutions and a team effort to get them off the ground. My collegue Montana Gray and I will work with you in our Solutions Think Tank to

? identify your hidden fortune
? make the decisions that will change your life
? define your idea or goal and create a doable plan
? and we’ll also give you the ROAD MAP and SUPPORT to insure you stay on course. Because no idea can live without sustained right-thinking and right-action.

Go here and read more or contact us for a FREE 20-Minute Consultation to discuss your idea and how we can help you get off the ground (yes, even in a “bad” economy! It’s actually one of the best times!)
 
Email us at ideasthinktank@gmail.com or call 303.485.5280.
 
Find out the 3 Ways You Can Make a Fortune with Your Hidden Ideas too. 
 
Site: IDEAS: Solutions from the Think Tank

  In numerology, 9 is the number of completion, starting over at 1 (beginnings; new)  again after 9.

Today is 09/09/09! Boy, great day for completions!

Decide on just three things you will complete today, they can be small, just finish them by putting them away, donating it, trashing it (if really trashable), shreading your pile to shread, repairing that loose button, putting new shoe strings in your tennies (that you bought two months ago), sending a card to someone, making a sales call you’ve been stalling on, etc.

What will you complete today?

I just saw an old Cathy cartoon on a notepad - she’s surrounded by grocery bags overflowing with her purchases, she’s screaming, “I just spent $75 on groceries and I didn’t get anything to eat!!”

Among the items tumbling from the paper bags are glass cleaner, lotion, shampoo, a sponge, tooth paste, laundry detergent, paper towels, nail polish, silver polish and bathroom tissue to name a few.

Do ever come home wondering what your money purchased, and where the food is?

People spend 50% more without a grocery list. We compulsive buy due to being hungry, thinking we need something but didn’t check it out before we left the house or there’s a sale, clearance, special buys, cool new tools or products,  or 2 for 1 buys that we just can’t pass up.

There are shopping trips that are necessary to actually stock up on non-food items, but if you’re headed for groceries, you need to think ahead.

To keep Cathy’s frustrations from happening to you, do the following simple yet often overlooked steps:

1. Look through your frig, freezer, cupboards and pantry to decide what you really need to make meals happen.

2. Write a grocery list to match what you need.

3. Take your grocery list to the store.

4. Shop from your grocery list.

5. Don’t buy anything that is not food!

CLOSE TO HOME cartoon by John McPherson.

“Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor,
upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.”
~ Aldous Huxley

When you’re setting weight loss or maintanence goals, you’ll attain them with less effort and longer stick-to-itiveness if you chunk the big picture down to daily, small and doable portions. This brings the ceiling down more often and ‘walking on your “new normal” and accomplished floors’ toward your next level of your big picture goal.

Research shows that setting small, short-term goals — that can be achieved and built upon — is more important than a number on a scale.

You can get on it, you can check it when and if you like, but don’t make yourself crazy looking at numbers on your scale. You’ll keep seeing “what isn’t” and getting discouraged. Do-the-doing of the small, daily tasks and goals that should and will “naturally” get you there from here. Then, dance on the ceiling! Ahhh, Lionel!

Are you “too busy” to get to  your TO DOs?

Because we live too much in our run-on thinking minds, we “think” we’re too busy to complete projects and so go to bed every night with shoulds and ought tos and negative emotional upheavals that can actually interrupt our sleeping patterns, as well as every day joy patterns. We keep dancing around all things we know we “should” be getting done and completed that we are resisting.

Think about a child who “just doesn’t have time” to do a chore. Is that true? The chore may take all of 60 seconds! like in taking out the trash, or feeding a pet. But ohhhh, the complaining, fretting, procrastinating and crazy-making-drama that is laced all around it. And, what does the adult say? “If you just do it you’ll be done and can go play!” This is no different for adults!

Our brain and undisciplined thinking-mind make our lives very hard by continually resisting “what is” and doing the doing. The fact is, that unfinished projects hang over our heads and distract us from the task at hand, and more importantly, from our joy.

DO THIS:

1. Make a list of every unfinished and half-done project or job you have. (No thinking about it. Just write it down.)

2. Talk to the resistant “kid” in you and plan 5-15 minutes to “chip” away at it every day.

3. Plan more slots of time to do the same and DO THE DOING so that you can GO OUT AND PLAY!

You’ll be finished with project after project, day and week-by-week and feel so good about yourself. You’ll also be doing your health and wellness a good service. You’ll have let go of the stress, fear, tension, anxiety, self-loathing and all else that accompanies the NOT DOING and SHOULDs.

Start today! Think how much you’ll get done by the end of the week, month and year! WHOOHOO!