To Have More Energy & Attract The Good Stuff, Spring Clean Your Life

Springtime is a great time to clean up your life in all areas. April showers brought May flowers, the days are longer, and energy seems to be running higher. Some of us just naturally feel urges to clean our nests at this time. Possibly it was a family ritual in your childhood to open your home to fresh air and sunshine, polishing up the windows and clearing out the winter's accumulation of dust bunnies and clutter.

While this time of high energy and Spring renewal is a great time to clean up your homes, yards, and messy cars, it is also a good time to extend this clean-up process to all areas of your life. Putting up with, or tolerating, the messy areas are a huge drain on your energy and, are a noisy distraction from fully enjoying the good things happening in your life and often can cause missed opportunities.

First identify all that you have been tolerating in your life. If you are a normal, red-blooded human being, your list will be really long. This is important: Don't just think about it; write them down. Besides the obvious--home, car, garage, yard/garden, equipment, and office, take a close look at your work, job, or business. Also write down what you are tolerating about your spouse or partner's behaviors and habits, as well as your own behaviors and habits. Everything. Big and small. If it annoys you, trips you up, or nags at you, write it down.

Study your list carefully, and this may sound odd, but note the benefits of having and maintaining these tolerations. List at least one benefit for each toleration and then list the costs of keeping that toleration in place. What damage does it cause you? Is it worth it?

Now pick the costliest toleration on your list and completely eliminate it. Or, if you have to work up to the biggest one, choose ten smaller tolerations and wipe them out first. You will be amazed at the energy you gain by plugging up these leaks. Some of those bigger tolerations will not seem so daunting.

Just remember that when dealing with other people you cannot necessarily change them, but you can enlighten them that you are changing and you will not be tolerating some things you may have put up with in the past. Be very clear what boundaries you have put in place. No need to go on the attack. Be kind, but firm. You may want to invite them to join you in becoming toleration free. It is a very attractive and authentic way live your life.

So get started cleaning up your life and keep whittling away at that list all year round. Plugging up those negative energy drains will allow you to positively attract all sorts of good stuff to your life.

Susan Henderson is a career & life redesign coach who teaches creative multipreneurs how to remove the obstacles in their way to building sustaining and meaningful multiple profit centers. Sign up for her free ecourse, Five Secrets to Making a Living as a Creative Multipreneur at: http://www.susanhenderson.com

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