The Power of a Clean Slate
Clean Slate: to be free and clear of your past so you can be open and present to your future.
Life can be overwhelming, like a heavy rain on a windshield when you are driving down a superhighway. Aspects of your life will appear unclear, clouded by the roles, responsibilities, routines and relationships in your life. What is needed is a clear slate, an unobstructed view of who we are, what matters most and where we are going. But the highway of life seldom tells us to pull over and clean our windshields, rather we drive faster and faster in hopes of arriving at our destination before our windshields blind us. In these moments we must decide to pull over and clean our windshield. Sometimes it means pulling off the road and seeking refuge until the storm passes.?At other times it means checking the level of window washing fluid we have in our reservoir, to help us navigate through life’s complicated moments. And sometimes, what is complicating our lives, are the clouds of chaos, complacency and confusion that only exist in our rearview mirrors.
?When life seems to be more complicated than not, it may be time to replace your windshield washer blades and remove your rearview mirror, so you can fully participate in the experiences that life is presenting to you.
Below are some questions that I have reflected upon to clean my slate and move forward after the global pandemics that we have all been navigating through over the past few years….
?1.?????What am I “meant to do” with my life and how is it different from what I want to do, and what others expect me to do with my life?
?2.?????What am I risking by not taking more risks in my life?
?3.?????Who believes in me and what do they want from me?
?4.?????Who drains me and why do I keep them engaged in my life?
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?5.?????What narrative or image am I upholding to others because I am afraid to step away from an unhealthy relationship at work, with a client, or at home?
?6.?????When do I find myself eating my words? What is that costing me?
?7.?????If I just clean my slate, what new possibilities will take center stage in my life?
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3 年Just came across this post.? Another brilliant share from a beautiful mind and heart.??
Author & Founder of the BLOOM Institute. I journey with creative leaders working on Big Impossible Goals to help them remember purpose, restore balance and connect to well-being for themselves and the people they lead.
3 年Thank you for this Toby, the questions are beautiful and thought provpking.
Postgraduate Certificate at Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration
3 年Good one, great provoking questions.