Hinsdale Magazine | Peak Performance
MENTAL SPRING CLEANING THROW OUT THE NEGATIVES IN YOUR LIFE. It’s March 2020, and the 19th is officially springtime. Corporate taxes are due, and personal taxes will soon be paid, if not already. Your kids have spring break, and it needs to be planned. Spring training has arrived, and the Cubs and White Sox will begin the season in first place. Your golf game is soon out of hibernation, and The Masters is just around the (Amen) corner. The NBA playoffs are shaping up, and the NCAA Final Four will soon be determined. Most NFL teams are juggling their rosters for next fall. The first quarter at work is closing, and your secondquarter results are going to rock.—And the weather will get much, much better. Now it’s time for a new, awesome you. Spring-cleaning is here, and it is not limited to your physical closets and junk drawers. It’s time to clean the clutter from your mind. More than 30 percent of your thoughts are waste. Many of these thoughts can actually sabotage your goals and dreams. These unnecessary, extra thoughts can weigh you down, while they shackle your imagination. They restrict your freedom. These thoughts occur at sporadic, uninvited times, and they attract negative emotions that wreak havoc on your life. Some of these useless thoughts can linger for weeks, months and even years. It’s time to clear them from your performance pathway like debris from the sidewalk. First, recognize why these extra thoughts have arrived on the screen of space in your mind. Ask yourself the following ten questions:
1. Do I have too many goals that lack the discipline of planning? 2. Do I make negative comparisons to other people? 3. Do I have failures that still haunt me? 4. Do I have too little time and too much to do? 5. Do I wait for circumstances and conditions to change before I can act? 6. Do I rely too much on other people and care too much what they think? 7. Do I lack a life blueprint with welldefined visions and goals?
8. Do I associate with negative people? 9. Do I put me last and think more about other people than myself? 10. Do I have too little confidence? Any yes answer to these questions can be the cause of feelings of impatience, frustration, low confidence, worry, anxiety, anger, jealousy, fear, sadness, apathy, misery, despair, low self-esteem or depression. Get mentally organized: Think less, so you can produce more.
Jim Fannin Columnist
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