Six Strategies to Clear Your Mental Clutter

Dear Friend, "A house that is cluttered is usually lived in by people whose minds are also cluttered, who need to simplify their lives. This begins with simplifying and clarifying their thinking. Mind and life need to be freed from the "disorder of the unnecessary." ~Elisabeth Elliott

Much of our energy is drained by both mental and physical clutter. The last several weeks we've focused on our physical surroundings. This week we turn to the mental clutter that - drains your energy, robs your time, makes us less effective and really we feel badly about our inability to move forward. Enjoy six strategies to clear your mental clutter.

Six Strategies to Clear your Mental Clutter

1) Get a notebook - use this for ALL of your to do lists, thoughts and notes ... no more post it's strewn throughout your home, car and purse! If you want to ratchet up your organization - create a tab for each family member, work, home, errands and any other large project in your life.

2) Complete the uncompleted - complete all that hangs in the balance be it a never ending work project or your child's picture book. We all benefit from deadlines, make one for the projects that need to be completed. If it doesn't need to be completed...see #3.

3) Drop what isn't working - from the wrong workout to toxic friends - say yes to yourself and no to what doesn't work.

4) Schedule time weekly to regroup AND schedule time monthly to plan - for some this will be an entire day for others it may be one hour - take what you need to eliminate the loose ends from your life and refocus your priorities.

5) Move - if you find that you are having trouble moving forward mentally - then make strides physically. Go for a ten minute walk -studies illustrate that even ten minutes of physical activity has emotional and physical benefits.

6) Stay in the present moment - truly the only time we have isn't what has already passed or what might be ahead, but rather the present moment. The moment that exists right now. Embrace the moment...it is simply, but not easy. If you struggle return to your breath to be centered.

Make It Happen

This week work on clearing your mental clutter. Use these six strategies to attack two projects - one personal, one professional. May you be blessed, for you are a blessing! God Bless, Margaret. Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.

Simplify Your Life - Tidy Your Finances

http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg8k56jg_245fwpmbshb Dear Friend, "I am believer that orderliness begets wealth." ~Suze Orman Sometimes in life you read something and you think, wow I couldn't have said it better. And as such this week's newsletter is borrowed with full credit Suze Orman's "Overhaul your Files and Finances" found in the March 2010 O Magazine. The article sets forth a financial spring cleaning outlining what documents to file, what to toss and how to organize them in a way that makes them accessible and purposeful! I think you will find her practical advice as useful as I have. Click here to enjoy the full article. Make It Happen This week read the article from Suze Orman twice. Look at your calendar over the next four weeks and schedule time to revisit your papers and your filing system. When you come upon your date to revisit your filing system refer to her article as a practical roadmap and reference tool to guide you. As you go through each day refer to the following de-cluttering principles: Reduce - the amount of "stuf" in your life Rethink - what you actually need Eliminate - the excess May you be blessed, for you are a blessing! Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved. www.MargaretPundmann.com.

Forgiveness - Get Over It!

2010 - Destined Forgiveness - Get Over It!
Links Website Blog Life & Business Coaching Young Adult Coaching Past Newsletters Press Purchase a Copy	Welcome to February! My heart is heavy for the people in Haiti and for those who are without because of Haiti's devastation. To play some small role in helping I'm donating all profits from book sales during the next month to the American Red Cross. Purchase a personalized copy to help yourself and to help others. February's Recap Week 5 Loving ... You -Read Derek Walcott's poem Love After Love -Feast on your life -Take one step to build your love for YOU! Week 6: Love Isn't Love Until You Give it Away -Refuse to hold your love inside -Share your love - speak it, show it, write it, sing it -Let those in your life know your love for them Week 7: Relationship Rx - A Check Up! -Review the six questions with your significant other for a relationship check up -1. How are we doing? -2. What is good about our relationship? -3. How can we work together on _(you fill it in)__? -4. What do you need more of? -5. When we disagree how can we understand each other better? -6. How satisfied are you with our intimacy? As your coach I want to encourage you to dream wildly, love wholeheartedly, persevere relentlessly, believe in yourself unwaveringly and give abundantly! If you are new this week...welcome...let's make 2010 your best year yet! For a recap of what we've covered during January and February visit the archives. In February we are covering love...and all things on love! God Bless, Margaret.
This Week's Topic: Forgiveness - Get Over It! Dear Friend, "To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness." ~Robert Muller During the month of February we've been focused on love and relationships. And let's be honest a key component to loving someone is having the capacity to forgive. According to Merriam Webster to forgive is to "cease to feel resentment." When we forgive another we release ourselves from ill will of the past. When we harbor ill will, we are hindered from healing. Indeed, we must understand that failing to forgive is really handing over our power to someone or something else. The experience or person to whom we have given life and power is the exact thing that we are running from, that we fear or that torments us. In order for our lives to flow as they were designed to, we must claim our power, and that can only be done when we grasp the concept of forgiveness - and act upon it! Each of us has suffered in some way. To move beyond this suffering and pain, we must forgive. When we continue to be a victim, we remain powerless. In order to live our most powerful life, we must bravely and boldly look into our past and see where we have unresolved scars and face them! Make it Happen This week select two people or situations that you need to forgive. As you review who you need to forgive - be open to the possibility that you may need to forgive yourself. Write each a short letter forgiving them or even you for what has or what hasn't happened in the past. Write the letter all out - as if no one but you will read the letter. Don't hold anything back, let go. We can even become complete with people who have already passed away. This process is about you not about them. If you become frustrated remember that we are doing this for you, so that you may move forward. Here is the line you've been waiting for...you don't have to send the letter. What you write is from your heart and for your eyes only. This process is difficult, but not forgiving is even more difficult in the long run. Allowing resentment to live within gives permission for negative energy to have life and power over you. Your goal is to say good bye to that which does not serve you so that you will have room to replace it with that which will serve you. This process will lead you to live your most powerful life. May you be blessed for you are a blessing! Encourage your friends, family, and colleagues by sharing this newsletter with them and invite them to subscribe! Direct them to www.MargaretPundmann.com where they can sign up. Margaret Pundmann is a life and business coach, speaker, and author of numerous articles on living your most powerful life. The "Powerful Living, Powerful You" newsletter is written and distributed by Emerge Enterprise. Copyright © 2010 Margaret Pundmann. All rights reserved.www.MargaretPundmann.com.