Mindful Monday | Don't be afraid to go back

"Come, come, whoever you are. Ours is not a caravan of despair. It doesn't matter if you have broken your vow a thousand times. Still come, and yet again, come." - RUMI

Come back.

So often people start something significant with the best of intentions and at the first hurdle assume the worstthat failure is inevitable. So they walk away.

Come back.

You may be so much closer than you imagine.

Don't let walking away be your story.

You want to make a change.

You want to simplify your life.

You want to remove the clutter and obstacles that are keeping you stuck.

That's a noble and oh so achievable goal.

So come back.

If you stumble, if you get confused, if you get bogged down by the volume of stuff and your unrealistic expectations about how long this might take ... try again.

Getting organized is not difficult it's simple. It may not be easy but there's nothing complicated about it.

So don't be intimidated by the piles and stacks you see around you they're just stuff.

And since you're probably older than five or six, you know that stuff is not the boogeyman. It's just stuff.

And stuff isn't alive.

It may feel like it sometimes.

You may go to sleep and swear something moved in the middle of the night.

But unless you were sleepwalking or someone you live with is a trickster, nothing moved.

That's another story.

So no matter how many times you've tried before to get and stay organized, no matter what happened in the past that kept you from finishing, come back.

There is no despair in failure, only in surrendering to a story in which you are not the hero and you don't win in the end.

Because every story can be rewritten, even that one.

Know in your heart of hearts that you are not alone and we are here cheering you on and eagerly waiting for you, too, to come back.