What Are You Tolerating? An Exercise to Make It Better.

Do you ever have “one of those days”?

You know the ones: where you wake up grumpy and everything irritates you? Where you go through your day tolerating the things that bother you? Where those things suck you into a vicious cycle of negative energy?

You know . . . those days.

Well, I had one of those days a few days ago. I woke up at two a.m. with my head spinning around all the things I’m tolerating.

For example, I’m tolerating my junk drawer.
Everyone has a junk drawer, right? And you wouldn’t think a junk drawer would keep someone awake at two a.m. But it did. I was thinking about all the junk I have in there: a broken cell phone, a bunch of accessories for my essential oils—accessories I’ll never use. I have a broken keychain in there, and some quartz crystal.

In other words, I have clutter in my junk drawer.

One of my amazing clients, Christa O’Leary, is an interior designer with wisdom around flow. Not spiritual flow, but the flow of energy, and how certain items, or clutter, can bog down that energy.

My junk drawer is bogging down my energy, you guys.

Clutter doesn’t manifest solely as physical clutter—as items. It can also manifest as relationships or situations or emotions.

So what happens when our energy becomes bogged down by this clutter?

We don’t have the bandwidth to follow through on things that are important to us. We get tired. It’s difficult to gather the momentum we need as we create something bigger than ourselves, as we create a movement we’re passionate about.

But it doesn’t have to be this way.

I want to walk you through a powerful exercise for identifying your own life clutter, and then working through solutions to clear it.

You’re going to need a pen and a piece of paper. Go ahead, grab those, and I’ll be right here when you get back.

No, really!! Do it now, or you risk not coming back to this exercise. And I have a feeling you’re going to enjoy it.

Okay. Ready? Let’s begin.

I want you to brainstorm. What are you tolerating in your life right now that is bogging down your energy, weighing you down?

These may include:

• Relationships
• The way he or she might treat you
• That he or she doesn’t do any work around the house
• A certain team member
• A virtual assistant
• The fact that you don’t have enough money in your savings account
• The clothes in your closet that don’t look amazing on you anymore
• An average relationship with your mother
• Piles of laundry

Set a timer for 30 seconds, or even a minute if you’re feeling prolific.

Start writing. Write down everything that’s frustrating you, everything you’re thinking about, all those things that catch your eye or your thoughts during the day—the paperwork on your desk. The dishes in the sink. The way your friend is always late when you meet …read more
Source: Shanda Sumpter