Your mind needs just as much tidying as your space

We are delighted to be able to share our latest guest blog with you all - many thanks to Alicia Mullery.

We are pretty familiar with how to tidy, say, the kitchen.

You might have a cleaning schedule, a set of tools or even a standard of how messy you'll allow the kitchen to get. The maintenance of your kitchen is a continuous commitment.
Just like your kitchen, your MIND needs to be continually tidied and managed.

Tidying your mind means focusing your attention on what will get the results you want and releasing the things that hold you back.

Because your mind accumulates LOTS of things.

Right now, your brain might be full of half-remembered to-do lists, partial work solutions, vacations ideas, loving thoughts about people, stressful thoughts about people, anxiety about the weather, doubt that you're "doing it right", beliefs from childhood, the latest makeup trend on Instagram, and much more.

How often do you tidy this messy mind?

Do you even know how?

If your answer is no, don't stress. I find that most of us have never been taught the skill of how to tidy our minds.
Here's a tool I used with my coaching clients that helps them clean things right up.

It's called: the thought download.

1. When you start feeling overwhelmed or anxious, grab a paper sheet or your phone.
2. Now download every thought floating around in your mind so you can see what's going on.
3. Look at the download and ask yourself some questions:
• What's stressing me out the MOST?
• What thoughts, when I look at them in black and white, seem ridiculous
or not true
• What are the real priorities and what can wait?
• What thoughts do I want to keep on this list?
• What thoughts can I bin?

This is the equivalent of emptying the cabinets to clean them out. You'll find old, expired, no longer-needed things in there! Get them out.

When you routinely tidy your mind, you feel lighter.

You reduce your mental load.
You spend less time spinning in overwhelm.
You make more decisions.
You like those decisions because you've made them intentionally vs scrambling at the last minute.
You feel calmer knowing you have an easy-to-use tool to tidy up stress anytime.
Your friends and family will comment on how you seem more at ease, more together.
They'll ask about your secret.
Go ahead and tell them.

P.S.

I coach women to make a career move in the next 6 months, but unlike other career coaches we look at your life holistically to advance your full life, not just one slice of it.

We'll tidy your mind around your career in a consultation call.

When we work together, we'll make decisions about your next career goal and the path to get there and continuously tidy your mind along the journey.

By the end of our six months, you'll have decided your next move, started creating it and elevate your whole life in the process.

If you want to make a career move, contact me for a consultation - Alicia@aliciamullery.com