Carrie Baker – The Growth Collective

This is the perfect description of my life at the moment……

A whole bunch of life getting in the way of the things I want to, or need to be doing.
(Like writing!)

Whenever I contemplate our move to the UK (which is in two months time), I have this news feed of ‘To Do’ lists scrolling through my mind, pushing out any thoughts of writing. (Sorry for being absent in my blogging in the last few days!)

I have been talking to my small people at the dinner table recently, about needing to go through their toys and only keeping those ‘few’ things that are exceptionally special to them.
While I feel terribly guilty about doing away with almost all of their toys and books, a big part of me is really looking forward to living a minimalist life.

Because it’s not just life that gets in the way, our ‘stuff’ can too!

The only person in my household who seems to have sad feelings about the ‘culling’ process that needs to happen, is my daughter. She is almost 11 years old (with all the sass of a 16 year old!) and the thought of letting go of the vast majority of her things, is causing her heartache.

I have been thinking about why she feels the need to hold on so tightly to the ‘things’ that spend 99% of their time shut away in her bedroom cupboard.

My thoughts were this;

I believe her reluctance to sort through her belongings all comes down to the fact that they have been a constant in her life. In her (almost) 11 years we have moved around more than we’d have liked, (cue more feelings of guilt) and not by choice! We seemed to have a knack of renting a house that was (at some point after we moved in) sold and we were moved on.
I think that us grown ups hang on to things in our lives all the time, not all of them are things or keepsakes.
The ‘stuff’ we are afraid to let go of can be the very reason we aren’t progressing to that place in life we want to be.
For myself, it was the feelings of not being good enough that stopped me from writing for so long. I was afraid of others not liking my work, or that I’d be a complete failure.
But we are all allowed to start at the beginning, and we never have to be perfect at anything we have just begun.

What are you holding onto in your life/heart/thoughts that is stopping you from stepping out into your destiny? ( I always ask the hard questions….)

If anyone needs me, I’ll be laying on the couch with my arm over my face, thinking about all the things I need to do….