“Never again clutter your days or nights with so many menial and unimportant things that you have no time
to accept a real challenge when it comes along. This applies to play as well as work.
A day merely survived is no cause for celebration. You are not here to fritter away your precious hours
when you have the ability to accomplish so much by making a slight change in your routine.
No more busy work. No more hiding from success.
Leave time, leave space, to grow.
Now! Not tomorrow!"
- Og Mandino
While our main focus in life is usually to seek happiness (and the things that help bring that feeling to fruition), many times, once we’ve found the way to fulfilling that need, we hang on to the objects that facilitate that happiness as if our life and future depend on it. As a consequence, we tend to rely and base our happy moments on circumstances, objects, and people. Our lives quickly become cluttered by memories and possessions, and although they may be no longer relevant to our lives, we hold on to them only for the sentimental aspect of it.

I have taken inventory of my life’s belongings (which I have accumulated), feelings (good or bad, that I hold on to), attachments (which I cherish), and experiences (which I swear by). While I realize that, combined, they are the sum of the artist that made the master piece that I am, I also realize that they are preventing me from growth, and new opportunities…
The desire and need to de-clutter my life has been building slowly, making it easier to take on the act itself and clear path…
How about you? Have you ever felt the need of a "spring cleaning" of your life? Make your mind and life clutter free? Make space for new?
To finding the "good" in goodbye...
RosieSandz
This article is part of my guest writing project for the website Tarisikoki.com, visit the site for more entries by talented writers.
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Overcoming nostalgia (and maybe a small
bout of hoarding) is not a simple task, as your body and mind yearn for the
past. Sometimes your attachment to the material belongings prevent you from
disregarding. Is our self-identity
defined by the “stuff” we own and the things we’ve gone through?
Finding “good” in goodbye…
De-clutter the unnecessary belongings to
make room for “good” new space…
What happens today; accept it. Deal with it
for what it truly is, and open yourself up to experiences, without dragging a
chained-ball of past attachment. Today, this moment is your focus! Don’t try to
make it what was when challenged; don’t try to control it and salvage it by
trying to recreate past success. Fully
embrace, appreciate and enjoy today’s experiences and challenges, as they can
and will be the new memories you will want to hang on to. Good experiences will
never feel long enough, so while quantity will never be reached, focus on the
quality of the moment… Replenish your life with newness, while maintaining
only your core beliefs.
Make space for new “good” relationships…
Sometimes
we hang on to people because of the way they make us feel, and because of the
sense of security the give us. This is either because
we want to maintain a certain amount of people around us (to feel love and a
sense of value) or just to avoid loneliness and facing ourselves. Nothing is
guaranteed to last forever. Knowing that, don’t hold on too tight or
exclusively, as you would never want to feel lost if they depart from your
life. Be open to new and different points of view… don’t limit yourself.
Give up on the redundant; welcome
unpredictability for new “good” experiences…
Just
because you failed at something in the past, it does not mean that trying again
will prove to be disastrous. In the same vein, just because something was once
successful, it does not guarantee the same outcome when repeated. Embrace your past, and learn from it but let it go. Don’t fear
what’s ahead; run towards it. Open your mind to new situations and welcome the
effects that they will have on you today (in moving away from yesterday and
changing your tomorrow and the only way of successfully accomplishing that is
to welcome the new).
Finding the “good” in goodbye is not always
easy, especially when there is no real reason why you should say goodbye to
anything or anyone. To belong, we feel the need to attach ourselves to people,
ideas, places and duties to maintain those bonds. However, when we understand
that we have a choice every night to be thankful of the ending day (closing
your daily book for a new sequel to start tomorrow) and every morning to be
thankful to be part of the day starting and the new opportunities at our door, the lesson to learn is that we have the
ownership of our daily outcome and to be fearless of the HELLO(s) life has to
offer.
How about you? Have you ever felt the need of a "spring cleaning" of your life? Make your mind and life clutter free? Make space for new?
To finding the "good" in goodbye...
RosieSandz
This article is part of my guest writing project for the website Tarisikoki.com, visit the site for more entries by talented writers.
Image Courtesy of Google Image Search