The Clutter in Our Minds, Unexamined Paths and the Ham

It’s amazing how it takes us a while to clear out the clutter in our minds.

By clutter in this context, I am referring to scattered or disordered thoughts, beliefs and practices that impede or reduce one’s effectiveness.

There seems to be little time, due to our busy and challenging lives to interrogate the clutter in our minds.

Some of this clutter is also caused by allowing our “intuition” [i.e., immediate insight or perception, as contrasted with conscious reasoning or reflection] to fill our minds and thoughts with ideas and beliefs that we have not personally examined.

I have found that as I get older and have less on my plate, somehow, I am able to reflect upon my past decisions, accomplishments, failures and relationships with more clarity and honesty.?I also have less fear of the realities and truths that have caused the “peaks” and the “valleys” in both my professional and personal life.

Here is a short video with a good story I often tell regarding how our “intuition”, as convenient as it can be at times, can also lead us down “unexamined” paths for our entire lives.