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Empty The Trash

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My computer is a bit of an older model but it has been a great servant. However, lately it has been running very slowly. Everything is just plodding along with a lot of spinning wheels of death and little hourglass icons showing me that my machine is thinking but taking its sweet time about it.

Last night I had had enough. Time to clean it up and look for reasons. Transfer some songs and pictures, erase some unwanted files and delete some movies my kids had made. Things began to flow a little easier but we still weren’t there.

Finally I decide to empty the trash. Hundreds of undesired files just waiting to be erased from my system and awaking the giant inside of my little computer. Boom. Back in action. Speed and ease were once again reborn in the little engine that could.

Empty the trash.
So simple yet so rarely accomplished in our lives.

Last week my wife and I went over to a friend’s house for a dinner party. Like many people in our neighborhood they live in a very nice house replete with the double car garage. As is customary the husband felt compelled to show me his ‘toys’, vintage car, tools and some guy things he kept in the garage. It was brimming with stuff. Christmas decorations all labeled, old winter tires for the family car, and box after box of forgotten equipment. All of it no doubt purposeful once or every so often but the place looked like a toned =down version of hoarders. You could barely fit a car in if you wanted to but the space itself was the size of a regular bachelor suite back when I went to University.

“Don’t mind the mess. It’s on my to do list to get in here and clean this place up.”
I bet it’s been on the list for years.

Stuff.
Things.
Needs.
Wants.

It’s clutter and it’s slowing down your hard drive. Your brain. Take time today to make a list of all the areas in your life you want to accelerate excellence. Physical and mental.

If you want to stop worrying, then write down all the thoughts that are dancing around in your head. Start a journal. Open a new document and use it as the placeholder for your thinking. Purchase a day timer or moleskin to act as the trashcan for your ideas, thoughts, problems or concerns. You can get more systemized as you become used to brain dumping, just start. You cannot keep filling a cup up with water. Eventually it will spill out.

Get your brain emptied of the thoughts that are clogging up creating new ideas and joy.

Now go to your closet. You don’t wear that anymore but somebody else could. Empty the trash.
That messy drawer in your kitchen. Same.
Fridge. Same.
Garage. Purge.
Make a clean sweep.
Start somewhere if you feel anxious about tossing your collections of gear. One thing at a time if you need to. Slow and steady. You can’t win by being the fastest. You can win by starting.
Keep what inspires you or basic needs.
Start fresh if you have to.

Simplify everything. Too many social network sites stressing you out. Pick one or eliminate them all and see what happens. Put down the phone. Drop off the town hall meetings you had to be on. Empty some space for you to live in and thrive in.

Clean it all up.
Accelerate you.

Go. Make a difference.

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