Maybe It's Time To Take Stock

When you take stock, you can decide what to keep in your life, and what to discard.

Take stock of everything in your house.  Make 2 piles.  Keep. Discard.  Keep only what adds value and meaning and comfort in your life.

Take stock of everything in your storage.  Make 2 piles.  Keep.  Discard. If your “keep” pile is linked to an “imagined future”, you may want to look over everything again.  Will it withstand the tests of time?  Will it be in fashion, and still functional when that “imagined future” happens?  Will you be the same person then?  Will it still have value?

Take stock of your possessions, even your most prized possessions - your souvenirs, your cars, your horses, your cellar, your guns, your stamps, your coins, your collections. Make 2 piles.  Keep.  Discard. Do your possessions make sense in your current context, or in the context of where your future is headed? Are they just addictions? Are they costing you your peace and sanity? Are they costing you more than they are worth?

Take stock of your routines.  Make 2 piles.  Keep.  Discard.  What shows or channels on tv, or websites on your computer, are you addicted to?  Are they worth keeping in your routine? What are you gaining by doing so?  More importantly, what are you losing?  What new routines that will be good for your life can you make way for by discarding some of your current routines?

Take stock of your habits.  Make 2 piles.  Keep.  Discard. Discard any habits that are a drain on your resources, or drive people away from you, rather than towards you.

Take stock of your reactions playbook.  Your reactions to someone arriving late, someone leaving early, someone not doing something you asked them to do.  Make 2 piles.  Keep.  Discard.  Discard any and all reactions that are non-effective.

Take stock of your attitude.  Make 2 piles.  Keep.  Discard.  Pride, stubbornness, resentment go in the discard pile.  Also discard negativity.  A negative spirit is worse than the worst thing that can happen to you.  When all else fails, only your spirit will sustain you.  Maintain a positive spirit.

Take stock of the company you keep. Make 2 piles.  Keep. Discard. Make sure the company you keep enables you to spend your time constructively; and to build your life, rather than destroy it.

Speaking of company, you have to enjoy your own company, in order to take stock of what to keep, and what to discard in your life.

Learn to enjoy your own company – for an hour a day, an hour a week, or an hour a month.

Use that time to take stock and to decide what to keep in your life, and what to discard.

Soon, you will have less in your life, but it will mean infinitely more.

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Guide  as to what you should keep in your life. I urge you to print it and look at it once a week…

A spiritual activity that feeds your soul.  Keep.

A creative activity which allows you to use your talents and express yourself. Keep.

A physical activity that nourishes your body.  Keep.

A mental activity that feeds your brain and expands your knowledge.  Keep.

A social activity that makes you feel a connection to another human being.  Keep.

As always, thanks for sharing my Journey to Wisdom, Meaning and a Better Life,  and have a great day and week….M ……a Pearl Seeker like you.  Thanks to Ajay for his compliments on my last post, and thanks to the rest of you for your likes, pins, shares, tweets and votes…..much appreciated. Thanks also to those, whose comments on my posts, I discovered after the fact, directly or indirectly– thanks to Deepa and Raymond Nassar.

P.S. Before I end this post, I would also like to say Happy Birthday to all those with March b’days. I hope you will use this month to birth something new and wonderful in your life.

P.S. 2. If you need help with a negative spirit, I encourage you to read the works of Victor Frankl, C.S. Lewis, or the book Three Simple Steps by Trevor Blake.