A quick message for this Sunday evening....

What if you KNEW you wouldn't fail? What would you be doing differently? What would you change? As you ponder these questions (and wonder what on earth they have to do with survival or emergency preparedness), get a garbage bag and look around the room where you are reading this message. Messy, huh ;-)

Now pick ten items that can be thrown away: an old magazine, a pair of holey socks, a half-eaten sandwich....you decide. But don't spend too much time on it, twenty seconds max. Just count to ten while you look around the room, then count to ten while you pick up the items. Then close the bag and throw it in the trash can. There, doesn't that look much better already?!

Found items that are too large for the bag? See if you can sell it on Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.com/) or give it away on FreeCycle (http://www.freecycle.org/).

Now.....back to the original question. What if you knew for a fact that whatever you undertook would not fail? What comes to mind? A business plan, a move across the country, a relationship?

We clutter our houses and our minds with stuff: our homes with items that give us a perceived security, and our minds with just the opposite, with fear of failure. Both bog us down. The clutter in our homes does not allow us to be mobile, and the trash in our head prevents us often from living out our calling, or a life that would be more fulfilling. Either one prevents you from being in an alert, aware state of mind, ready to deal with change.

So now that you've gotten rid of ten clutter-stuff things, why not think of some things in your head that need to go? Perhaps forgive someone for what they did? Maybe overcome the negative words spoken over you when you were younger? Pick yourself up after a nasty divorce?

It's cleaning time.