Your Closet is Messing with your Head

It's universal:  your closet is screwing with you. I was asked to speak on the final day of the Live Aligned Event at the Pechanga Resort in Temecula, California. To recap; day one of the event was about letting go, while day two was about moving in a different direction. That's my department. One of the best questions was, "I have so much to do, but I don't know where to start!" My answer?  Depending on your personality, you'll tackle the thing you least want to do first.  Handle that like a boss and clear the deck for everything else. OR, you'll begin with the very thing that will bring you the most amount of joy.  You just might find yourself whistling while you work through the rest of your list. Then she dropped the truth bomb: "I need to clean out my closet full of old clothes that don't fit AND I need to lose weight." To that, I responded, "gurrrrrl, your closet is messing with your head!"  Every woman in the audience started to laugh and nod in agreement. It is universal. Consider your morning routine.  How much time do you spend searching for that one skirt that you know fits?  Where is that other shoe, anyways?  How stressed out do you feel when you realize those pants don’t fit, after all? Cue internal dialogue that goes a little something like this:  “They don’t fit?!??  Since when?  I’ve gained weight.  Great.  I really should be hitting the gym.  Why don’t I make time to do that?  I have to get on that.  Where’s that skirt?  It always fits.  Dry cleaners?  I forgot to pick up the dry cleaners again.  I really should be making lists to keep on top of things.  Why don’t I do that?