How To De-Junk Your Life

Been listening to audio books and am finding out I love them so much, I've decided to start a website selling them. I joined an affiliate program to make a couple bucks from each sale. Since I'm in the process of sorting out all the stuff in my life and getting rid of all the clutter, the first review on: http://www.AudioBookBeat.com is from How to De-Junk Your Life Dawna Walters audio book.

This has helped me unearth space to languish in and what I find truly amazing is indeed, less IS more. Never understood this phrase. Now I do. By clearing away the old, unused stuff, it's made room in my life, for fresh new ideas to flood in. I hope you will take the challenge also.




Dawna refers to our struggles with "life laundry" and how important it is to start sorting it, cleaning it up to sell it in a yard sale, give it away or if it can not be recycled anymore, toss it! Personally, I like to post my unwanted items on http://www.Freecycle.org to find a group near you. You never know, one man's junk is always another man's treasure. It is all given away for free on Freecycle, check it out and make someone's day. They'll love you for it.

Please tell me how this is going for you. I'll also keep you posted as to my progress as well. Happy de-cluttering!

The Power of Yes - Just say Yes! by Deborah Coates

Did you know that when you decide to say yes to your dreams, without you knowing it, a supernatural, invisible force is activated within you? It is standing ready to help you achieve that which you have determined to do.

Try it once. Say yes to something you’ve always wanted to do. Take some action toward accomplishing it. Did you notice something change within you? Did you discover some doors miraculously became open for you? Did someone appear that could help you?

When you say yes to something, positive energy will begin to encircle you. Remain in a state of ‘yes I can’ for a time and see what happens. Did you gain energy? Remember you are not relying solely upon yourself, to make the thing come about. The Spirit within you is in agreement also. Your Spirit will help you, guide you and wants nothing more than to see you succeed. Trust in that which lies within you and watch what happens.

You may meet with Fear.

It shows up often times at the very moment you are about to take that all important step. Tell it to step aside and keep on moving. Watch how fast it disappears. Fear is a bandit. It wants to rob you of your dream. It masquerades in many forms and attempts to ambush you. The amazing thing about Fear is how quickly it vanishes once you go on ahead of it. Remember, Fear is false evidence APPEARING real. Each time you conquer Fear, you are reinforcing the positive force field around you. This is what strengthens you and propels you forward to the next step.

Your mind will trick you.

Its job is to keep you from feeling any discomfort. It doesn’t like change or anything unknown. Tell your mind, “thank you very much for sharing” and keep moving. That which is good for you, sometimes will require you to act in spite of any uneasiness you may be feel at the time. Like any unused muscle, enough practice and you will eventually become stronger in these areas. Remember, when you feel uncomfortable it means you are growing!

When to say no.

Say yes, when it leads you toward your dream. Say no, if it interferes with or deters you from your plans. Stay clear from people, places or things that don’t encourage you to succeed. Protect yourself. Find a place to be alone. Think and dissect your situation.

Practice saying yes. It will transform your life, strengthen your confidence and drive away fear. The secret is saying yes. Yes, to your dreams, yes, to your creative spirit, yes, to the possibilities! Practice speaking affirmations out loud, or writing them out, as often as you can, to reinforce your positive force field.

The following list of affirmations can be used or you can create more of your own:

· I am a success magnet
· I am successful
· I live my life the way I choose to
· I am filled with anticipation, as I make the choices that create my life
· I listen to my intuition before I make a decision
· I am passionate about my life
· I am fun to be with
· I focus on taking only one step forward at a time
· I have everything I need right now to step forward toward my dream
· I can accomplish anything I focus on
· I am free to be myself
· I am the pilot of my happiness
· I create my attitude
· I choose to create my life the way I want it to be
· I am a Princess (or Prince)
· My beauty radiates from within
· I am beautiful and others are attracted to me
· I make it happen
· My sense of humor is attractive
· I am a money magnet
· I always have more than enough money to meet my needs
· My bank account is growing more and more each day
· I am dependable
· I am the author of my life
· I accept the outcome of my actions
· I am loved
· I give excellent service
· I am happy
· I am crowned with success
· I am confident I will succeed
· I surpass my goals with flying colors
· I make progress everyday
· I strive toward my purpose in life
· I am harvesting the fruits of my labors
· I am victorious over obstacles
· I have the courage to weather any storm
· I am the captain of my ship
· I out-wit fear
· I accomplish everything I set out to do
· I achieve fulfillment in my performance
· I am blessed beyond measure
· I bloom where I am planted
· I am rich
· I am lovable
· I love myself (Look at yourself in the mirror every day and say out loud, while looking yourself straight in the eye say “I love you”)
· I respect myself
· I let go and forgive myself for all of the past unwise choices I have made
· I am confident in the presence of others
· I am here in this life to joyfully express myself
· I am ready to receive my inheritance
· I know God is the source of all my strength
· I make intelligent decisions toward creating my wealth
· I am filled with faith
· Everyday I am more successful
· I have plenty of time for everything
· I am happy to be alive
· Opportunities and advancement toward my goals come with each door that I open
· I am victorious in my pursuits
· I listen to my Masters voice within
· I am strong and determined to get where I want to go
· I am brave in the face of adversity
· I am clothed with a coat of armor to protect me from what others might say against me
· I encourage myself
· I encourage others
· I love helping others freely
· I am adventurous
· I have excellent character
· My integrity precedes me wherever I go
· My attitude is contagious
· I am a success
· Every good and perfect gift I receive is from God
· Everywhere I am I receive new insight
· I look forward to each day because of who I will meet to help me achieve what I want
· I am filled with peace
· When I walk into a room everyone notices my smile
· My self-confidence and optimism radiates from me everywhere I go
· I am content with where my life is going


Remember, whenever you are learning a new behavior, you need to be patient with yourself. Like anything else, when you are in training (and in this case you are training your sub-conscious mind) you need to repeat certain actions (until your conscious mind automatically recognizes them to be true and brings into reality that which it hears the subconscious mind telling it.)

As you state each affirmation, bring about the feeling associated with it. For example: feel the love around you when you state you are lovable; how good does it feel to see your bank account mount higher and higher everyday; what would it feel like to be happy. Linking the feeling to the affirmation will cement these truths to your sub-conscious mind.

A good suggestion toward visualization is to copy your bank statement each month and add zeroes to the end balance. Cut out pictures of everything your heart desires and paste them up like a story-board. When you focus on the exact picture of what you want, that’s when things really begin to vibrate in your favor.

Think of one thing you can do RIGHT NOW to make your dream come true. Every decision you make, builds, strengthens, and fortifies the stronghold that YOU CAN!
So, what is it you want to say yes to? If you said, yes to YOU and YOUR DREAMS, you answered correctly. Now GO FOR IT! Who makes it happen? Repeat after me, “I do! I make it happen”! I dare YOU to succeed.

Basic Steps to Map Your Mind by Deborah Coates

An easy and effective tool to help you solve personal problems at home or in the workplace is to create a map of your situation, idea, or project. By putting down on paper what the specific challenge is, you will open up an awareness you hadn't thought of before.

By making a map of a concept, idea, or plan, with a sense of the relationship among the objects of thought, you will discover helpful insights and prevent road blocks in your endeavors.

Conception of an idea is like the fertilization of an egg. The embryo continues to grows in time. As you begin to map out your thoughts, you will begin to see a root structure form, containing all the interrelated thoughts stemming from the core idea.

"There are two ways to which the mind may bring into explicit consciousness the meaning of a word. It may translate it into an equivalent combination of other words, so as to reconstruct it by successive syntheses of its conceptional constituents, or it may call up a mental picture of the object named. We may call one the verbal, and the other the intuitional, explication of a concept." G.F.Stout

Today, there are many software tools available to help you map your thoughts; however, the quickest way to resolve the task at hand is to get it on to a sheet of paper.

Please visit: http://www.topicscape.com/mindmaps/ to view over 500 different maps from the mind.


Get paper and markers.

Find paper, the larger the better. Lay it lengthwise. The white rolls of paper used for newsprint work great for large projects. Get colored pencils, neon felt-tip markers or crayons if you prefer.

Choose a format.

You can create a tree diagram, which places your initial idea at the botttom. All of your related thoughts to this idea will form the roots or off-shoots. A spidergram looks like a spider or it can look like a spider web. Your idea is the body of the spider and each leg represents the related thoughts to your core idea. You can use bubbles, clouds, stars, interlocking wheels, anything you want to use, to make your map.

Use images, symbols and color.

If an image comes to mind which is representative of your idea, draw it. Cut pictures out of a magazine if you want to. Have a symbol for the concept? Doodle it. Want it in color? Color it. Make it fun. Make it play time. Your initial map is to be done as a free-form exercise. Relax, enjoy it and as you progress you will see the big picture.

Write down your central idea, problem or project.

Place your key word, picture or symbol anywhere on the page, as long as you have enough room to branch out. You are recording a train of thought that will switch tracks as your intuition guides you during the process.

The more questions you ask, the better the end results.

By placing your ideas under a microscope and expanding on the Who, What, Where, When, How and Why's of your idea, the more you will glean in the process. What are the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to your idea?

Creating a map of your mind will help you in personal study, as well as, the workplace to brainstorm new projects. Begin right now. Go ahead – I Dare YOU to Succeed!