Put an expiry date on the old stuff
Christina Joy
Leading business expert - success mentor, speaker, author. Helping people live with Unapologetic Freedom and Joy.
There’s no denying that life can sometimes offer up some tough blows. However, our personal effectiveness can be like insurance against the tough stuff. Without this, we get stuck and find it hard to move forward and live the life we want. Moving forward means realising that we may need to put an expiry date on old stuff.?
Like the expiry date on a passport or driver’s license or the use-by date on grocery items, there are areas in our lives where we need to renew, replenish or throw out those things that have expired. When something is no longer working to support you to lead the life you want or there is no longer satisfaction guaranteed, it’s time to accept that the expiry date has arrived.?
In his 2011 article “The Psychology of Letting Go,” Michael Fox, archivist and former deputy director of the Minnesota Historical Society, makes an astute observation: “Letting things go is simply one facet in the continuous process of change with which we all must deal.”?
I have observed that those clients who put an expiry on their old ways of thinking or behaving take the greatest steps forward. They expire habits, practices and mindsets that don’t support where they want to be in life, such as:?
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Low-value tasks?
Doing work they don’t love?
Hanging out with wrong people?
Comparing themselves to others?
Worrying what others think?
Being a victim or persecutor (e.g., blaming parents or others)?
Repeating old stories?
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Making excuses?
Playing safe to avoid failure?
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Essentially they put an end to their old life to make way for a new fulfilled life, and their personal effectiveness becomes the bridge between the two.?
There’s only one date for expiring the old stuff and to start living?a more peaceful, powerful and joyful life?— that’s today!
P.S. What would Joy do?
Let go to live joyful and fulfilled.?
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P.P.S. And get?in touch?—?I’d love to have a?conversation about how I can help you put all this into action so you have an incredibly?rewarding life!?
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