3 Places to Start Your Spring Cleaning

It is time for spring cleaning!

There are certain projects we work on each spring, and depending upon where you live, those tasks vary. Maybe you will get the pool ready, clean out the garage, wash the windows, weed and feed the yard, break out the golf clubs, or have a long list of projects both inside and outside the home that are long overdue.

Whatever your version of spring cleaning and getting ready for the new season, the time is here!

So is the time for you to do some spring cleaning on your leadership and your life. Here are three categories to take some inventory and do some clean up:

1. Your Goals

What goal(s) have you set this year and how are you doing in hitting them? You have some goals, whether from the beginning of the year or new ones that have come about, how are you doing? What steps need to be taken this week to move the needle?
What will you do today to be productive on what is important to you?

2. Your Health

How is your health? Are you at the weight you desire? Are you sleeping well? How about your energy level? Take inventory on your personal health and take steps to improve your life by improving your health.

3. Your Personal Development

How many books have you read this year? How many more will you read? Reading is so key to increasing your mental approach and critical thinking. Read, read, and read.

Have you signed up for a seminar, conference, or other event to develop your skills? If so, great! If you haven't, its' not too late. Go research options and sign up for at least one event this year.

We can get so focused on new activities, baseball, housework, kids graduating, work projects, and more that we lose sight of what makes all those good things great....

YOU, YOUR BEST YOU!

Take some inventory, do some spring cleaning now on your leadership and your life. Make it a great day, a great spring and you will be on your way to your best year ever!

Spring Cleaning: Find freedom in the purge.

Some call it spring cleaning; some call it "the purge." I suggest we call it healthy and necessary.

My wife and I recently conducted the process of going through boxes, shelves, cabinets, and closets...all to find those long forgotten treasures. Isn’t it amazing how we discover all these new things we didn’t even remember we owned?

Maybe this isn’t the most popular or enjoyable event, but I have to tell you, it was rewarding in the end. If you are anything like us, you have acquired far more than you could ever need and probably haven’t organized the important things as often as you should. Time to get moving.

We worked together to accomplish more than we could have on our own. We tossed away things of no value. We created more room to work, to live, and to truly enjoy the things we do have. In the end, we gave away items to people and charities that needed them more than we did.

We experienced all of these good and healthy results by simply taking the time to clean up our lives.

When was the last time you dug deep, really deep, and purged your belongings, your living space, your office? If you can’t remember when, or if you’re tripping over a bunch of junk, then it’s time for the purge. Put it on your calendar and enjoy the fruits of freedom from this typically ill-regarded, but highly valuable exercise.