"The first step to getting what you want
is to have the courage to get rid of what you don't want."
- Zig Ziglar
Today I am writing about the stinky stuff in our lives.
Most of us have some stinky stuff going on in our lives. Some have more and some have less.
I have had a lot of stinky stuff in my life, and I am working on slowly eliminating most of the bad smelling stuff in my own life. It's not always easy and it will require some action, effort and consistency.
We have to constantly be on the watch out for stinky stuff around us and making sure that it doesn't get in the way of us living a happy and fulfilling life. A little stinky..... we can deal with. But it's the huge stinky..... like full-blown emergencies and crisis, that will be a little more difficult to handle and that will take a lot of our energy.
Have you ever opened the door to your refrigerator and smelled something stinky?
I think that most of us have.
What do we usually do when we open the door to the refrigerator and we smell something stinky? Most of us will probably look around a little bit. Maybe we move a few items around trying to figure out where the smell is coming from, and when we can't see it, we just shut the door hoping that the smell will disappear by itself.
Does this sound like you?
The next day it is still stinky but since it isn't any worse than it was the day before, we simply ignore it again, believing that it will probably be gone by tomorrow or maybe some else will figure it out and clean it up so we don't have to.
This goes on for a couple of days, but by the time next week rolls around the smell is so bad that it can't be ignored.
We look in the vegetable drawer and find some "not so fresh" looking veggies and we decide to remove them in order to get rid of the smell. We are now sure that this will fix the problem.
But it didn't. And the smell is really getting bad by now. It cannot be ignored anymore. And since no one else seemed to be bothered by the smell we finally decide that we have to look a little closer.
We find some meat that doesn't look to fresh, and we quickly remove it. Thinking that the meat was the problem.
No, it didn't fix it either. The fridge is really stinking now. So we finally have to take the time to empty out the whole refrigerator to figure out what is going on.
After almost everything has been removed we discover some really old fish on the bottom shelf under a lot of other things. It was hidden and we didn't move the things in front of it nor did we remove things on top of it to, discover the rotten and stinky fish.
We throw away the fish. Clean out the whole refrigerator, and guess what.....the stinky smell is gone.
We finally figured out what was stinking up the refrigerator. The fish.
So my question is.....is there something stinking up your life right now?
How about your health and wellbeing?
Are you taking great care of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health?
Or are you ignoring it, thinking it will take care of itself without you paying any attention to it?
Are you feeding your body and your mind excellent fuel for it to operate on? Or do you mostly feed it junk?
Are you ignoring the signs of high blood pressure or high blood sugar levels thinking that it won't turn it something worse, like a stroke or maybe diabetes?
Are you sleeping enough? Are you drinking enough water on a daily basis?
Are you using sleeping pills to be able to go to sleep? Are you taking pills to relax or pills to get yourself going every day?
Are you drinking alcohol in order to be able to relax?
Is your body and your mind slowly becoming toxic and stinky?
How about your relationships are they healthy and nurturing?
Or are still hang onto some toxic friends and family members because you are afraid of being alone? Are you spending time with people who aren't going anywhere in life? People that don't want to learn, grow and expand their lives? Are you hanging onto closeminded people that have settled in life and that are now becoming bitter and stinky?
How about your job....are you happy and fulfilled at work?
Or are you simply just getting through the day and waiting for the weekend to arrive? Do you feel that your skills are not being used at work and you feel understimulated and unmotivated?
Or is it the opposite? There is so much going on at work and you are highly stressed and feeling that you don't have time to finish everything during the day and you have to take it home with you and spend a couple of hours in the evening completing the work.? You know that if this continues you will eventually have to face burnout from working way to much. Your family is slowly getting unhappy at home because you don't have time to spend with them and when you do, you are frustrated, short tempered and angry. You now have a stinky mess on your hands both at work and at home.
How about your finances?
Are you spending all the money that you make and then some, every month?
Are you wasting money buying things to impress others? People that you actually don't like but you want them to think that you are successful? So you buy things hat you cannot afford, but it is a quick fix and it makes you feel and look good for the moment. Are you in debt, but you still buy stuff ? Do you still believe that a bigger car, a bigger house, a brand new pool in the backyard, the latest designer clothes or new electronics will make you feel significant and happy.
Are you gambling away your money, thinking that the next bet will make you a millionaire?
Are you using your money buying stinky things or behaving in a stinky way?
How about your thoughts?
Are you having a lot of "stinking thinking" going on?
You know, we don't have control over a lot of things in our lives, but we do have control over our mind and our own thoughts. We don't have to participate in negative thinking, gossiping, complaining or worrying. We can choose to stop stinking thinking with more empowering and inspiring thoughts. Thoughts that will actually give us hope and empower instead of breaking us down.
Sometimes we need to stop and smell the stinky in our own lives.
Where in your own life do you have a lot of stinky going on?
Is there some area(s) that need to be checked on and maybe cleaned out?
Are you simply ignoring the smell and hoping that it will go away by itself?
Are you waiting for someone else to clean up the mess?
Why wait until something gets so bad that you are forced the face the really bad smell and then forced to clean it up.
Why not start a little earlier before the small stinky problem, becomes a huge full-blown stinky crisis?
Don't wait. If you can smell something stinky in your life. Stop and take a look at it. Acknowledge the smell and then take action right away. Don't wait, it won't smell any better tomorrow and it won't go away by itself, and most of the time no one else will fix it either.
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