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My First Objective: De Clutter

Time and Money are the first areas that need to be dealt with, but it would be better for me to start with Energy. She talks about Energy Drains, things in our life that we have to get done which we put off. Also, or physical space acts as an Energy Drain. Is it cluttered or is it organized? Your mind and your physical space are the same thing. A cluttered space relates to a cluttered mind. My physical space is cluttered, which leads to procrastination and laziness.

So my first task in creating my Abundant Life is to de-clutter my Living Space. Since I share a house, my bedroom is the first place I need to start. In my room there is an old desk that was here when I moved in. I wanted to get rid of it before I moved in, but never did. It takes up a lot of space and is ugly. I’ve been using it to store all kinds of junk, the junk that is my life. Well it’s time for that junk to go. It’s amazing the type of crap I have in there. Old Las Vegas Weekly’s that I never read, Matchbooks from the different clubs I’ve been to, 3 old iPod boxes, a cell phone that I had since 2002 and doesn’t even work, napkins from Subway (WTF?), the Sports Page from the Las Vegas Review Journal from May with nothing important on it, a granola bar I never opened, old copies of Men’s Health, A few old boarding passes, My Rose Bowl Ticket Holder (Hurray, I found It!), Business cards from clients who wanted to give me a job and never did, pens and note pads from the different conventions I like to visit here in Vegas just to get the free stuff… All kinds of junk, 2 trash bags worth.

After hauling the large bags of crap out of my room I looked at the desk to see if there was any other function it could serve, like if I painted it or only used the bottom half as a table. I found no reason to keep the desk and began to dismantle it, which was a bitch to take apart. Whoever designed this desk had no concept of ‘light construction.’ I didn’t go after the desk with a hammer; I just removed all the screws and let it fall apart.

When the desk was gone I felt the room totally open up. I see what Cheryl Richardson meant by de cluttering your living space to help clear your mind.  And it’s refreshing to throw that stuff away. It was like I was surrounding myself with unwanted useless junk and because of that all I was producing for my life was unwanted useless junk.

De-cluttering is Awesome!

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What I’m Putting my Faith In

I’m putting my faith in a video I rented off of NetFlix called Cheryl Richardson: Create an Abundant Life. In her seminar video she says the Key to creating an Abundant life is 3 things:

1. Figure Out What’s Great About Your Life
2. Have a Strong Belief that there is a Higher Power out there Providing us with Abundance
3. Marry Belief with Action

She then goes on to explain the areas in a person’s life that need to be cleaned up in order to put yourself in a receiving space. Those areas are: Time, Money, Energy and Passion.

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What Happened

On Monday, Feb 15^th, I went to put a deposit in the bank and found that my checking account had been over drafted with a remaining balance of -$297. “Not again,” I thought to myself. I thought something was wrong, like someone got a hold of my Check Card number and was using it at their leisure. After contacting the Bank on Tuesday I discovered that the overdraft was my Own Damn Fault. This is becoming a regular problem for me, Money mis-management. Obviously my job is a cash-only industry and doing regular banking is not something I engage in often, so my checking account is constantly being over drafted. I thought I finally got a handle on all of this back in December, but that was not the case. Something had to change… Fast!

I hired a Life-Coach back in September of 2009 to help me make my dreams come to fruition. He charged a lot and had lots of success with other people. I didn’t have the success others had attained, but then again I only put in half the effort. He was a Guru Type, all about Visualization, Meditation, and Morning Spiritual Ritual… very good stuff; and working with him I noticed my fears of money, relationships, family, etc… all drifted away. I also landed big-money clients that I actually got along with, visited some pretty cool places and even got to go to the Rose Bowl and watch my Buckeye’s Win! (It was the greatest day of my life). But while the big-fun-stuff was entering my life, the mechanics of my life were still being mis-managed and overlooked. Now I’m back to where I was in September and I’m ready to fix it, only this time doing it better.