Top 12 Easy Red Hot Mama Jumpstarts

1. Clear the physical clutter (closets, counters, garage, car)

2. Clear your mental clutter of any beliefs that no longer serve you. Thank them and let them go!

3. Question all your beliefs, habits, thought patterns. Are they yours, or did you accumulate them from someone else? Are you still being run by beliefs you adopted when you were a child, teenager, newlywed?

4. Apply a habit of “Sift & Sort” to everything: ideas, beliefs, habits, even the people you’re around. Keep what helps you and clear out the rest!

5. Define what you want your life to be in 2008 and beyond. Design and create your life like the bold, outrageous creator you are. (You can say good-by forever to living the life someone else expects you to live.)

6. Now take the picture/list you got in step 5 and make it even bigger, bolder, and more outrageous. What would you do if you had no fears? What would you create if you had no excuses? What would your life be if you could magically create it to fit your wildest dreams?

7. Now put energy into your vision by using all your senses and feeling yourself having attained all this.

8. Be grateful for what is in your life right now. Enjoy what you think is good and thank the rest for the lessons you have learned.

9. Get a partner, Mastermind partner, team of people who support you in your vision of a better life.

10. Make a daily practice of visualizing, savoring, gratitude’s, listing successes, and action.

11. List your successes every day! (Yes, give yourself credit for all you accomplish, even if you’re only taking baby steps toward your goal.)

12. Do something good for someone else. Be part of something bigger than yourself.

The Beauty in Simple Things

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

~ Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)

Beautiful Simplicity

"The simplified life is a sanctified life,
Much more calm, much less strife.
Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled-
Projects succeed which had previously failed.
Oh, how beautiful life can be,
Beautiful simplicity."

- The Peace Pilgrim

Why not decide to simplify some part of your life this week. We often create such complication and attach ourselves to so much stuff that it is very difficult for our light to shine through. And of course with so much complication and so much attachment we keep telling ourselves we have no time to be still and no time to nourish the talents which we have been given.

Yet within us we still hear our inner voice calling us "go on ... take another step ...". Sometimes we respond within ourselves "I will ...I will ... when I've enough time or enough money or know enough people or when I'm good enough or ... and so on". It comes down to one thing, one simple step - make a committed decision. Once made, you begin to focus and the universe responds to help you. Ah but I don't know what decision to make? If that's the case it's time to simplify and create space. In that quiet still space listen to your heart. Let your heart guide your way and trust the guidance you receive.

So clear out the cupboard, the wardrobe, the shed, the computer, whatever - if you haven't used it or worn it for a year then give it to someone who will use it or wear it or chuck it out!

I dare you!

© Seán M. Kelly