When you move home you are confronted with a reality of recycling treasured possessions, storing them or getting rid of them. Three things come together: there is a “need” (space or cost), you have an “ability” (the competency, passion and time), and finally, there is a “trigger” (event or window of opportunity created).
When you apply the same logic to our lives, the responsibilities that we assume in our career, with our family and friends or our personal interests and investments, we are largely “hoarders”, in the western world, largely bereft of a trigger, or in need of creating one.
There is a strange phenomenon where we cling onto “baggage”, physical or emotional, often without realising it (comfort in discomfort) and procrastinate. For example, the dysfunctional family relationship, the energy-sucking role or friend, the local community or sports club committee role, and so on. There is a need for a healthy “trigger” to be created or an opportunity arises (serendipity) where we need to be happy grasping the opportunity to move on (forward-looking) and we must hold ourselves accountable for doing it. No action, no reward.
What must you let go at home, in your business life, or your social life before this year ends? Where is the trigger?
