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Week 1 – Beware the “Clean Slate” Trap

You’d think that doing what one loves to do would be easy… but no.

For one, I made a grave error.
I cleaned out the closet.
I thought, “I should start with a clean slate.”

You know the kind.

Stuff you thought you should read.
Projects you thought you should start.
Ideas you thought you should turn into revenue.

I had 8 years worth of stuff.
I filled up two trash cans.
But still I wasn’t done.

That was 6 days ago.

Lesson learned: beware the “Clean Slate” trap.
It is a step backward
Dressed up as a step forward.

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One Response to “Week 1 – Beware the “Clean Slate” Trap”

  1. Jane Chin Says:
    February 10th, 2008 at 4:38 pm

    Ken D. asked me why I saw my “spring cleaning” as a step back.

    I felt that cleaning was a step back because I began to focus on “needing to clean” before being able to start doing something, rather than having this cleaning as a ritual or symbol (original intention).

    In other words, cleaning was becoming an excuse for why I wasn’t moving forward.