Take Out The Trash!

Well its been a few months since I have written a blog but thought it was a great time to write something as the past few months have re taught me some great lessons. Since being diagnosed with a Bosniac Type 3 cyst in my right kidney that could be cancerous, as well as having a back injury that stopped all physical activity, my mind began to switch and function in a totally different way.
Its not the first time in my life it has functioned this way and over the past 5-7 years, I have prided myself on creating an empowering mindset and attitude everyday, but this injury and kidney cyst showed me that over the past few years, my mind had begun to get weaker and I wasn't aware of it.

I spend everyday working with high achievers from a variety of industries and had lost attention to strengthening my own mind and making sure that it was functioning at its absolute best, no matter what! The day I heard the word "Cancer" was when I began to get proactive at strengthening my mind and to say I experienced the benefits straight away would be an understatement. A few days after being told the cyst could be 70% cancerous, my mind began to let go of all the insignificant things that we hold onto or get swept up in on a daily basis. As the title of this blog says, I began to take out the trash! The trash in my own head, all the worries and fears of what might happen to me as well as all the unproductive things our minds seems to store on a daily basis. This trash was holding me back from focusing on the things that were the most important to me, things that I hold as a priority in my life. When we have trash building up in our mind, we make focusing an impossible task! Focus is s state of clarity, a mind that has trash floating around will hold you back from ever achieving any decent level of focus, which then holds you back from ever achieving anything that is remotely close to what you are capable of!

So the past few months, I prepared for surgery by enjoying every moment of the day, being attentive to what I was doing RIGHT NOW! To help me take out the trash, I began to write down a list of things that I had 100% control over. When you are preparing for an important surgery, a lot of the trash that was building up in my head were things I had NO control over, which is nearly always the case. Once I wrote these things down I knew I needed to imprint these things in the front of my mind, so I began a process of fixated visualisation, where I would stare at each one of these things form 1min each, just imprinting them clearly at the front of my mind.

I then began to write down a list of processes for each one, that would clarify to me the specific daily tasks that I needed to focus on, to ensure that I was taking out the trash! After approximately 10 days of focusing on these tasks and making these a priority in my life, I began to feel like I could achieve anything and heading into surgery, I was calm and confident that I could deal with whatever was going to happen.

Now, a few months after surgery and a month into the new year, my health is getting back on track with my back injury improving everyday. I have set some great goals for 2013 and created a Dream Team around me to help one another achieve their goals for 2013. Starting in February is my assault on eliminating sugar from my eating habits, which is going to be tough seeing I am a chocoholic, but I love a challenge!

I hope you have started 2013 with a bang and I would recommend trying to become aware of whether or not you have any neural trash to begin taking out! If you can begin to take out some of the trash in your head, I guarantee you will begin to eliminate some of those negative emotional states and replace them with more empowering, productive emotional states that will help you achieve everything you want out of 2013- AND MORE!!