Here I am, writing my very first blog. I have been avoiding this for years.

I chose the image by Albert Einstein, Out of clutter, Find Simplicity.

That’s the overriding wish I have for my life at the moment ~ to create clarity by simplifying the clutter I have amassed in my life.

Somehow, the content of the course seemed to promise that.

But getting started? Well, that was another thing entirely.

I thought it was a 2-3 hour commitment on Sunday afternoon from 1-4. Oops, that was wrong. It was 1-4 EST, not PST (not mentioned either way in the email so I made an assumption it was PST). I found that out by “coincidence” at 10 minutes to 1. I quickly contacted a few of my friends who I knew wanted to participate and jumped in making lunch while listening.

Then there is a Blog Workshop on Monday – well, my day was booked for 12 hours already and then Tuesday and Wednesday, I was moving. And so it went on and on, confusion, lack of clarity about what is where, way more of a time commitment than I originally thought.

How can I possibly do this with everything else I have on my plate, letting go of other priorities because of these deadlines, trying to help other people make sense of it all? That feeling of being overwhelmed!

But, from Day 1, I committed to the daily practices of reading The Greatest Salesman in the World, the lesson and sitting still for 15 minutes a day.

This committed practice, this new habit, brought me a sense of calm in the middle of the storm. I trusted that if I stayed with the process and printed everything off and got caught up with all the videos and blogs and DMP’s and homework, that my life would transform.

It has. My new habits already have replaced the old. I now no longer listen to political You Tube videos at night. I am reading and my screen is turned off. I have been “trying (which means not doing)” to do this for three years.

For this new habit of reading, I am extremely grateful. I wake up and do my reading again every morning AND my daily exercise without fail. It is pleasurable to me and so I do it every day.

I am taking care of “me first”, putting my needs first.

This is a big achievement for me as an “other-oriented Blue”.

I find solace in the simplicity of these practices and trust that this is the foundation I need to clear the clutter to clear the way for me to get clarity on and actualize My Definite Life Purpose. I am hopeful.