Clear the Clutter!
This is what happens when my
inner OCD discovers the one and only master organizer, Marie Kondo on
Netflix! I binge watch the entire season
and get to work. Marie’s method is to
hold each item in your hands and see if it sparks joy. You need to ask yourself if this item is
something you want to bring into your future life. If the answer is “No”, you let it go. I realized this week I need to clear my mind
the same way I’ve organized, purged and neatly folded my closet!
“When
your room is clean and uncluttered,
you have no choice but to examine your
inner state.”
~Marie
Kondo
This week is a huge week for my
journey. I announced the launch of my
very own website at sandywade.net, and the launch of a closed membership Facebook
support group. It’s exciting and extremely
petrifying. The inner critic is
cluttering my mind the same way my closet was overflowing with too many items
that didn’t spark joy. This critic’s
voice is not welcome in my future life. But how do I get it to stop?
“Girl, who do you think you are? What makes you think you can do this? What
if? What if you make a complete and
utter fool out of yourself? What if this
is all a big fat fail? What if?”
Well, if I am to apply the Marie Kondo
method, I neatly fold these thoughts up, thank them, but set them free because they
do not spark joy. They no longer serve
me, or my future life. Instead, I choose
to replace them with something different.
“Girl, look at what you’ve
done? You’ve lost 45 pounds and kept it
off. You self-published a freaking book. You created a website, on a zero dollar
budget, and designed it yourself using YouTube.
What if? What if this all works
out? What if you help many other people
who are where you were two years ago?
What if? What if this is just the beginning?”
Marie Kondo said, “When we really
delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only
two: an attachment to the past or a fear
for the future.” Let’s keep it real –
it’s easier to believe the negative thoughts and it’s scary to let them go. But I believe in what I’m doing so much and I
know I can truly help people out there who need it. I’m so passionate about this and have spent
so much time on this. I know that no
matter what happens, I’m not giving up.
This week my exercise is to stop
each and every time the negative critic voices her opinion. I neatly fold that thought into thirds,
politely thank it but announce it no longer serves me as I place it in the toss
pile.
“I surrender all. It is well, it is well,
it is well within my
soul.”
Amen
Results for the week: -5.0
lbs lost; Total Lost: 45.0
D.O.W. = 566; Starting
weight: 182.0; Current weight: 137.0
(Days
on the Wagon = Days of food sobriety - no sugar pig-outs!)
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