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Clean Up Your Messes!

Posted On Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Under: Building Self-Confidence, Goals, Healing after Loss, Principles of Wealth, The Power of a Positive Outlook, You can make a difference!

January is all about fresh starts and new beginnings. Our family traditionally meets in the living room on the first Monday of the year to set goals together and to discuss what we would like to see happen in the upcoming months. Tonight was that night, and my sister’s family joined us for the event.

I shared how I had recently read Aaron Raymond’s book Double Your Income Doing What You Love, where he gives some suggestions for setting goals for improvement. In our goal-setting session tonight, we discussed four of them, one of which I will address here:

Choose to clean up one mess each month.

Aaron says, “Each mess is a lock on the gate that keeps abundance out.” I found that fascinating – and then I read the following paragraph:

“Messes rob you of vitality. Messes teach you that you cannot handle tasks . . . Messes make you cringe. Messes make you apologize to others. Messes diminish you. Messes do not merely belittle you; they actually have a major impact on your financial well-being.”

I believe he is right. Right now if I think about several areas of my home, I do cringe, because there are messes calling out to me, waiting to be addressed.

Aaron suggests considering messes in the following areas:

Your car; your clothes closet; your desktop; your files; your desk drawers; your garage; your basement; your tools; your taxes; your paperwork; your computer; your last will and testament, even your key chain!

I would add: your kitchen drawers; your cupboards; your laundry room; your fruit room; your storage closets and hidden areas. That room or closet that, when you’re not sure where to put something, you open the door, throw it in, and slam the door closed. (Yes, I really did used to have a room like that!)

He says, “The more messes, the more locks on the gate that keep abundance out.” But then he promises: “Every mess you eliminate, no matter how small, brings relief of enormous proportions.”

I want that relief! I am going to follow his suggestion, and every month this year I am going to tackle one of my messes.

In the Bible, Job talks of a “land of darkness . . . without any order . . .” I feel that darkness when I consider the messes in my life. 1 Corinthians 14:40 counsels us, “Let all things be done decently and in order.”

I feel so much better when things are “done decently and in order.” I just haven’t made it a priority – until now. One mess a month – I can do that! And just think how much more light - and abundance – will come into my life!

Join me – we can do it together. Invite abundance; reject darkness: Go clean up a mess!

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