Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - 3/25/05 - Mental Housecleaing

March 26, 2005

Winner's Circle Network with Lou Tice - 3/25/05 - " Mental Housecleaning "

How much unnecessary junk is accumulating in your attic? No, not the one in

your house - I mean your mental attic.

Since we are closing in on what many of us call " spring cleaning " time, many

of us sort out and discard possessions we no longer use and give them to

charity or sell them at a garage sale. But have you ever thought about how

valuable it could be if you took the time to perform the same kind of mental

housecleaning?

Removing the superfluous, the unnecessary, the destructive, or the outlived

from our mental attics is a vital part of making room for new possibilities.

I know a man who often says, with his jaw tightly clenched and a no-nonsense

expression on his face,

" I know who I am! "

But we can't possibly stay the same if we are living creatures. Each

surprise, each unpredictable turn, each new venture, produces the potential

for new insights, new responses, and new resilience. A willingness to change

is a prerequisite for openness to life. And without that willingness, we

become stuck in our need for stability and certainty. Eventually, if we stay

stuck long enough, we stagnate. We exist, but we don't really live.

Is there any junk in your mental attic that you would be better off

without - a grudge, a hurt, maybe an outgrown assumption? A job, an outworn

" must " or " should, " or an old anger? Why not clean it out?

Lou Tice

The Pacific Institute

" TPI teaches people how to manage change, set and achieve goals, lead more

effectively, and think in ways that create success. "

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Blessings,

Charlene

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