Are you: relieved, happy, proud, or exhausted? Feel it and enjoy feelings.

Sit for another minute. Take another DEEP belly breath. Slowly open your eyes and REALLY start to take actions you just pictured.

Now I know many of you might be thinking this is crazy or off wall. I also know many have excuses for their clutter - why things are way they are - or their fear of letting go. I know many get attached to not just their "things" but also their attitudes and their picture of world, as they see it. I know many don't take any action, nor never will, as they sit and watch stuff pile up around them.

I know many don't have know how to get organized. Many just don't have any organizing skills; just don't have a clue as to what to keep or not. Some need permission, to be held accountable by a friend or mentor, or take a class or get some coaching. Some need motivated or a good friend. There is certainly nothing wrong with not having or wanting and needing any of above; however if you don't make choice to take some kind of action against your clutter I guarantee you you will have bigger problems and more severe clutter problems in coming years. And it's never too late if you start right now.

Continue to practice your imaging throughout days and weeks ahead. It takes little effort, but you must work on your picturing power everyday until your action kicks in.

Make a commitment to yourself TODAY. Start TODAY! Stand up and chose to take whatever action you need.

Dr. Peale, author of Positive Imaging: The Powerful Way to Change Your Life, tells us that whatever our minds can conceive and believe, and your heart desires, you can achieve.

For those of you that read Bible, you can even read in Mark 11:24 that Jesus says, "What things so ever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them."

So why not try, practice, and work at picturing your clutter gone - what have you got to lose except some clutter?

Smiles, not Piles,

Copyright (c) 2002 by OverHall Consulting P.O. Box 263, Port Republic, MD 20676 All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce, copy, or distribute this article so long as article is kept intact, this copyright notice, and full information about author is attached.

Oh, I can hear you now! I see you’re getting ready to zip me off an email with all your reasons and excuses. Please don’t, I’ve heard them all. BUT what I want you to do is write out excuses you are telling YOURSELF for your disorganization and then read following:

In January, 2001 issue of Oprah, Dr. Phil McGraw answered a person's question about losing weight in which I would like to quote here for you to think about. When Dr. Phil is speaking of weight or food you should substitute clutter or stuff you continue to bring into your life (or any other challenge you might be having):

"You aren't helpless, you aren't lost, and you don't have right to give up on yourself.

Your first and greatest challenge is not struggle to lose 175 pounds, it's to overcome self-defeating internal dialogue that has paralyzed you. You're telling yourself that you are incompetent, that you are unable to create change. You're stalled because you are responding to this kind of self-inflicted criticism, not to actual challenge of losing weight. Having convinced yourself of your ineptitude, you might even be consoling yourself with food, very substance that has contributed to your problem."

Are you consoling yourself with buying more stuff or bringing more stuff into your life that you don't really need nor have room for?

So what are you going to do about your challenges and hurdles?

You can study, learn, and gather as much information as you want, but it won't make a tiny difference in your life unless you put it to work. I've discovered a little book that helped me to make quantum leaps in implementing good ideas. My friend Rick Butts has just published The Big Butts of Life - Get Off Your Excuses and Do Big Things!

Rick has excerpted some powerful ideas from this fun and easy read, and is offering them to you FREE as subscribers to OverHall IT!. Just send an email to mailto:kicking@rickbutts.com?subject=janethall for Rick's excellent three day mini-course, and start kicking those Big Butts (excuses,) out of door and start doing things you really want!

Good Luck and let me know how you are doing.

Smiles, not Piles,

Copyright (c) 2002 by OverHall Consulting P.O. Box 263, Port Republic, MD 20676 All Rights Reserved. Permission is granted to reproduce, copy, or distribute this article so long as article is kept intact, this copyright notice, and full information about author is attached.