What Is In Your Junk Drawer?

Sometimes you read something and think YES!!

It resonates with you and is such a good message that you want to share it. This is what I am doing with this week's newsletter.

My good friend? Stephan Hovnanian ?published a LinkedIn post around the Thanksgiving holiday last year and he has been kind enough to let me use it. I remember reading this post and thinking it applies to the holidays, but also how applicable it is for all of us at any time of the year.

As you read his words, I hope you will think about what you can do to prioritize and reduce the junk that may be piled up in your life.

Here is his post below:

The feeling of chaos and stress that comes with this time of year can only be equated to how I feel when I open the junk drawer in our kitchen

Like the junk drawer, there's a lot of stuff that gets packed into these next 6 weeks. Like the junk drawer, some of what's on our plates can be tossed out. (or deprioritized in the case of work).

Like the junk drawer, most of what's on our plates just needs to be organized and prioritized. (Challenge meetings without an agenda. Say No. Recapture focus time. Do the one thing that *must* get done today).

Like the junk drawer, after we organize and prioritize ourselves, it's only a matter of time before things get messy again. (despite my best efforts to say, in full Dad Voice, "let's keep it this way from now on").

I'm not going to let my actual or metaphorical junk drawer get the best of me these next 6 weeks. I hope you'll do the same

Thank you Stephan for an incredible reminder!

On the journey with you,

Carlos