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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 9: Simplify your Schedule
Hello and welcome to Day 9 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul Challenge. We hope you’re enjoying following along with our enlightening exercises. Feel free to write to us via email and let us know how this series is working for you. For Day 9 of our soul cleanse and purge process, we will touch upon the concept of simplifying our schedule. Many people don’t enjoy following a routine. They feel that it hampers their personal freedom. Another reason why having a schedule can seem so stifling is that we then become tempted to fill up any open spot on the calendar with more activities and events. Then, when…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 8: Organize Your Mental Clutter
Welcome to Day 8 of our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Thank you for continuing to follow along! Nature does a cyclical purge each winter. This clearing is necessary to make way for new life in spring time. Whatever dies returns again in a new and nourishing form. Think of a pine tree, shedding its needles to form an insulating carpet for the forest floor. The spent needles decompose along with other dead plant matter, into the most rich, fertile and life giving soil. Death brings life in a new form. So now we see how nature’s built-in cleaning process is really a readying for new growth. Our planet…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 7: Buff and Shine Your Attitude
Welcome to Day 7 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge. Today we’ll focus on spring cleaning our attitude. Your attitude goes a long way for shaping what happens over the course of your day. If you approach life from a pessimistic viewpoint, you’re sure to attract more of what you’re putting out there. Since spring is such a lovely time of year, with much beauty to tantalize the senses, why not spend some time freshening up your attitude? Indeed, a poor attitude can feel like wearing a heavy wool coat when it’s hot out. The feeling weighs on you and can seem suffocating. You want to shed that…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 6: Scrub Away Guilt
Has guilt become an unwelcome house guest in your daily life? Do you move from task to task and situation to situation of your day, with the weight of guilt tugging at your mind and heart? Constant guilt is no way to thrive in your life, and that’s what we’ll be purging on Day 6 of the Spring Cleaning for Your Soul 15-day challenge. Guilt robs us of satisfaction in ourselves, and steals away our peace. Where does guilt come from? It might originate in your own mind… wanting to please others and be of service. But guilt is also a feeling that’s shaped by how we were raised. Did…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 5: Clean Up Your Chaos
Hello and welcome to Day 5 of our Spring Cleaning for Your Soul challenge! Today we’re going to work on cleaning up our chaos. One thing that always feels really good at springtime is clearing out the clutter and chaos of our daily lives. Most people think of spring cleaning as a household task. The warm, soft breeze beckons us to open up the windows of our homes and let in the fresh, clean air. We suddenly feel like cleaning out not only our closets but all of the chaos of our busy and brimming existence. Invite some peace into your life by cutting out the chaos and calamity. Make…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul, Day 1: Freshen Up Your Perspective
Welcome to Day 1 of our Spring Cleaning for the Soul challenge! We’re so happy to be here with you at this joyful time of year. Spring is a time of cleansing. Our planet does a natural self cleaning during this season of renewal and rebirth. The trees that shed their dying leaves in the fall now use that energy to burst forth new growth. The brown, dead grass that covered the ground in winter makes way for fresh green shoots poking up from the soil. It’s pretty amazing that with each passing year, nature knows just what to do. Stepping out into the warm sunlight, kissed by gentle spring…
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Spring Cleaning for Your Soul
Ahh, spring. It’s a time of rebirth, renewal… a fresh start and a return to life. Much like the plants that have shed their outer layers to reveal new growth living beneath the surface, spring can be a time to cleanse our minds and hearts of outdated habits, attitudes and beliefs that no longer serve us. In doing so, we can clear the path to developing new, smarter ways of being that are more in support of who we are and what we value most. Do you feel like spring is the perfect opportunity to relieve yourself of inner burdens that weigh you down? Would you like to use this…
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Tips for Time-Batching Your Life
If you are someone that never seems to stop moving, is constantly bouncing from one task to another, and still can’t catch up, then time-batching might be the perfect option for you. This is not about time blocking, though that is also a great method to use. You aren’t choosing each individual task to perform at certain times of the day like in time blocking, but instead batching similar tasks together in order to be more effective and productive. Why Should You Time-Batch? Before we get into the steps needed to start time-batching, let’s go over some of the reasons why this might be a good idea for you. You…
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The Benefits of Journaling for Personal Growth
Personal growth is all about improving yourself and your life. Everyone, no matter who they are and what they do, can benefit from some personal development. One of the most common strategies to work on personal growth is with a journal. Why is that? Here is a look at the benefits of using journaling for personal growth and fulfillment. Clarity Where You Don’t Expect it Journaling is recommended so often for personal growth not because of what you know you will get out of it, but what you don’t know you will get. You might feel extremely self- aware, but it isn’t until you reach a moment of clarity while…
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The Top Lists to Add to Your Planner
Whether you use a regular weekly or daily planner, a journal, or bullet journal, you probably have areas where you can compile lists. Lists allow you to not just organize your day and important events, but so many other areas of your life. Here are some of the best lists to include in your planner or bullet journal. To-Do and Task Lists You are not just going to make a to-do list for each day, but of long-term tasks and goals, things you have been putting off. Start with a master list of every single thing you have been needing to do. Include different categories of tasks, including those for…
