Cleaning Room :-)

I have no idea where it sources from, but I have been having these undying urges to venture into the "spare" room in my apartment and to start breathing some love and life into it. It was ever since my Mom came to visit that it triggered this urge I have of late.

I started having visions of what colour to paint the room and how to use the room in future. The issue to getting the room to its end state now includes going through years of me storing knowledge, souvenirs and sentiment!

My real issue is books, past project documentation and magazines! I have tons of these! I did this exercise a few months ago and I am amazed how now being a bit older and wiser (looming Birthday probably has something to do with it), I am stronger to let go than I was before.

I have realised that we all hang on to stuff! We hang onto stuff that creates the illusion of coping with challenge, strength, warmth, comfort and generally just a place in our lives where we seemed to have overcome, felt the deepest we could have or had our moments of truth. To me, it feels like we store / stock up to create that fulfil the role as reminders in our lives (purely from my experience).

I realised a few things as I picked up the "reminders", evaluated their worth in my life and decided between the stay and send on your merry way pile, how ever changing my life was and how ever evolving my life will be going forward! That only by letting go and setting free, do I create space for the new.

So using this spare room as my life example, the more I get rid of the old, the more there is space for the new and before I know it, I will have a transformed room! My readings of late (stuff that has me spending time reading in depth) have also leaned towards this theme of little steps make up the journey to Extraordinary! What was most fascinating was how looking at your day sends a strong message of how your life looks and will look! What takes up your diary / schedule probably is going to be the bigger reality of your life! Also to reach your true championship status in life does require the basics be applied consistently. The little steps again!

I also am reminded how letting go can be peaceful versus hard work or crying and mourning! How wonderful the surrender and release can be when you simply ALLOW BLISS! Making that decision and allowing it.

So this week, as this higher truth / perspective / wisdom becomes clear as my desire to experience my greatest bliss. What soothes me and allows me to let go in a big way, is the fact that what I need in terms of knowledge, experience and perspective is always around me and available to me. Hanging onto to all those books, past project documentation and constant reminders of the great in my past life, was holding me down to open up to the new perspective, knowledge out there.

I can now see how I was resisting learning new in my professional space and longing for the familiar to get back into a professional comfort zone.

So here is to making space (a little step of many)................................. after all, I going to end up with one sizzler of study after the spare room transformation and who knows what wonderful experiences will come to dwell in that new space ;-)