Welcome to Day 2: Clean Up the Mess

Hi there, welcome back! 

How did it go? Did you conquer the little voice in your head that says, ”You can't! I don't want to. I'll do it later”?

If you did, I trust you know what I'm talking about when I say your sense of confidence and ability grows stronger. Now I know it's a tiny little move, and I only asked you to take one action. But here's what I know to be true: Tiny little actions, taken consistently over time, have the power to completely transform our life. I call them micro moves. 

And I tell my clients all the time, or I say on retreat, don't underestimate the power of a micro move. A micro move is a committed action in the direction of what we want. And over time, those little actions add up to a pretty amazing life!

So if you conquer the voice in your head and took action anyways, give yourself a little round of applause. Pat yourself on the back and celebrate that micro move, because it really does count. And it really does matter in the long haul.  

All right, so today's “C” is clean up. I think for a second there, what's next? Clean up? Okay, so this is identifying one area of your life where things are a mess. There's no order or no sense of integrity there. It could be a literal space, like the floor of your closet, for instance. You know, maybe you've got shoes scattered everywhere and a pile of clothes laying there, and it would be advantageous to clean up that physical space. Right?

So that could be the one area to say, “All right, I'm going to clean my closet floor.” That's the place you go to focus. And again, when you choose that area, you'll notice that as soon as you do, some version of noise comes into play -- “I don't want to. I don't have time for that. It's not that big of a deal.” Right? The same habitual, repetitive conversation goes on. 

Well, we already know how to conquer that little voice, we're just going to do it anyways. And we're going to identify one area that needs to be cleaned up. Now, this might also be an emotional kind of space. Right? It might be that what there is for you to clean up is that you snapped at your daughter when you were upset. And you never really went back and said, “You know, I snapped at you out of anger. And I don't want to interact with you that way. And I'm sorry.” I think that might be the place that you need to go and clean up. 

Or maybe you told someone that you would get them a project by a certain time and you missed your deadline. But you never actually acknowledged that you missed your deadline -- you just kind of pretended it didn't happen and went on. 

What we know is that when we step over things like that and we don't clean them up, it has this sort of cumulative effect. It has a way of making us feel small, like we've got something to hide or we need to hide -- kind of feel bad about ourselves. And those things only serve to turn up the volume of doubt. So if we really want to ditch doubt, we've got to get practiced in cleaning things up, literally and emotionally. 

So identify your exercise. Now your action to take is to identify one area of your life that needs to be cleaned up. Whether it be the closet floor or a conversation with somebody, and regardless of what the noise says, do it anyways.

And just trust me on this. Watch over time, micro move by micro move, how momentum begins to build and your sense of confidence does as well.

All right, get into action. I'll see you tomorrow!