Is All Your Stuff Necessary?
I got a pile of stuff. Collections of old laptops, comics, shirts that no longer fit and even tax returns from 1997.
“Joe,” I told myself “I gotta throw some out. Otherwise, how can new stuff come in?”
Sigh. Till 2006, I never followed through on my self-chastisement. The stuff keeps piling up and investing in new cabinets added to the stuff.
How many of you suffer from the collection bug?
Stepping back, I realize that collecting nonestop can be dysfunctional at times. It’s the mind whispering, “you better hoard, coz you’ll never get something like this again.”
That’s a self-defeating mindset. It gets you on a poverty mode of thinking.With such thoughts, its impossible to see new opportunities and take on grand challenges that may truly expand one’s horizon’s beyond the current myopic view. Why? You’ll perpetually be hiding, hoarding and protecting. How can you grow under such conditions- how can you attract things beyond what you already have?
Today, I begin throwing out stuff.
Eduardo
Hi Joseph,
Yes, it’s always for me – my big problem – what to do with all this things in my room.
So I know what to do
Because you are for me like kind of authority – I will step by step “throwing out stuff” the same as you do.
I like this article.
Best Regards.
Ed.
Btw. Thanks for adding my blog to your “Top Picks”
February 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pmJoey
Always a pleasure!
February 15th, 2008 at 8:55 am