As I talked about in my last blog, to clean house and getting rid of the stuff that is not serving you can clean your mind and bring you energy.  But it can also be an overwhelming experience.  Therefore it is easy to put it behind everything else and procrastinate.

Where should you start such an overwhelming project?  Break it down to small steps.  The question to ask is what is taking the most energy from you?  For me the usual answer is the clutter on my office desk.  That is why I start working on it first.  Beginning with the space on the desk that is closest to me.  Then I expand to the whole office.  The trick here is not to stop, but letting the energy that is released when I get rid of the overflow and the annoyances help me clean the rest of my space and life.

It is amazing how much lighter I feel after cleaning my space and how much more

 spacious it feels, both in my surroundings and my soul.  The space that shows up is incredible.  The energy that is released is even more life changing.

Now with all that extra space the question is what to do with it?  One option is to fill it up again with other stuff.  This time, you tell yourself, it is going to be stuff that you really want.  Or is it?  There is another option.  That is to focus the energy that was released outwards and change the life you are living.  Which brings up other questions.  What kind of life do you want to live?  What do you want in your life?  These questions bring you back to yourself.  These are big questions that need to be addressed.  The cleaning of the physical space is just the beginning.  Now you need to move on to what are you doing in your life?  Where do you spend your time and how?

Again starting close to home is often the easiest.  When I started to look at how I was using my time I realized there were two things I didn’t much care for.  One was the “necessity” to check the e-mail, which I talked about in an earlier blog (“Email – the time vampier”).  The other one was TV.  I found myself sitting in front of the TV for more hours than I care to admit.  And because of that, I was not enjoying these hours with my husband or doing other productive work.  Sitting next to each other watching TV is not interacting.  Deciding what was worth my time, and what I enjoy the most worked wonders for my life.  Now we record the shows we really want to see and watch them when it fits our schedule.  No more hanging in front of the TV.

By starting with small steps the bigger steps become easier.  Rome wasn’t built in one day.  So why would you change your whole life in one big step.  It takes a lot of courage and patience to become what you are meant to be.  Having spent your whole life building what you have and then take a turn takes a lot of guts.  It requires a lot of time to get to know oneself and to find out what you really want in life.  And then build up the courage to actually start building the life YOU want to live.  The life of abundance you deserve.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna

The financial markets are still in the bad shape. It looks like the government wants to save them and their solution is to use taxpayer money. The experts are saying that they are trying to do the same thing as was done in Sweden 10 years ago, but with one big exception?  Yes, I said exception.  The exception is that the people that made bad decisions do not have to take the consequences.  In Sweden, the people that made the mess were not rewarded.  The risk was on the companies and not the taxpayers.

How can a CEO who ran a company into the ground walk away with a golden parachute?  What is the result if I do not have to take the consequences of my decision that results in my underearning?  First of all, I will not change.  I will keep making the same decisions with the same results, i.e., underearning.  I might complain, but keep on doing the same thing again and again.  It is difficult to change behavior, especially when the result is not getting through.  Even when the result is getting through and it is devastating, it is still difficult change.  I have to want to change and need to change.  Be willing to go through some tough times while doing the change.

Do you think that the Wall Street CEOs will not do this again if they do not have to feel the consequences for their actions?  Do they want to change?  Do they need to change?

It takes courage to change, a lot of courage.

Love and peace,

ElinAnna