How to attract more good stuff in YOUR life and business
Part 1/2
Neil and I are covered in muck, dust, grime and filthy, dirty cobwebs. We’ve just spent two whole days clearing out our loft ready for some new insulation to be installed tomorrow.
I’m absolutely shattered. And, yet again, I conclude that I was not put on this earth for manual labour because, after all, I am a 4-star-minimum girl with beautifully manicured nails! And before you ask, Neil totally agrees with that statement.
We discovered all sorts of stuff that had been slowly rotting or rusting away for the last goodness-knows-how-many years:
What made me think that a solitary black bin liner would keep a quilt and pillows clean and dry for the last 5 years?- Why did I store my old Olympic typewriter up there without even a cover over it? This reminder of the ‘olden days’ when I had to keep my nails short or the heavy keys wouldn’t go down is now sadly covered in rust
- Why on earth didn’t I give them all to a charity years ago?
- And why did we save at least 20 humungous cardboard boxes from our last house move 16 years ago?
We now have a whole yard full of stuff to take to the tip, so that’s going to mean even more hard work; we reckon on 4 back-breaking car loads… I’m beginning to feel faint at the very thought.
What a waste of our valuable time when we could have saved ourselves all this stress by not hoarding all this rubbish in the first place.
I know what you’re thinking. You live and learn. But sometimes lessons like this cost far too much. I’ve got:
- aching limbs from running up and down our extremely steep Edwardian stairs carrying impossibly heavy boxes
- a throbbing head from constantly looking up just in case something should come flying out of the loft hatch without warning
- a sore throat from swallowing a pile of grit that DID fly out of the loft hatch without warning. I reckon that stuff has been up there since the house was built in 1906
- a very sore finger from having an extremely heavy dumb bell dropped directly onto it from a great height – and Neil had the audacity to laugh. Good job he was out of reach at the time or I’d be doing time now for GBH!
- and a scraped shin from sliding too fast down the loft ladder with a thundering great box in my hands
If only we’d videoed it all – at least I’d have earned £250 from ‘You’ve Been Framed!’
Unlike what those highly-suspect ‘dosh in the attic’ TV shows may suggest, hoarding hasn’t produced any little treasures for us. All it’s done is caused us loads of hard, physical, time-consuming work for no monetary gain.
And from a business point of view, it’s robbed us of two whole days which could have been spent creating or improving a product or service to help our customers and provide more income for our business.
Every cloud has a silver lining
But we have achieved an awful lot too.
We’ve started the clearing out process ready for our next house move and, in getting rid of the rubbish which was taking up valuable room, we’ve made space for a whole lot more good stuff to come in.
Part 2/2 – Getting rid makes way for massive change
