Blog Post: Old News? Dump it For Good!

I’m talking about the bad stuff that happened to you yesterday, last week, years ago, sometime in your past.  If you’re still dragging it out to rummage through it and relive it, then you’re giving it too much floor space in your life.  Old news is occupying valuable space that could be used for storing stuff that makes your life more pleasant, like happy experiences, creative endeavors, new acquaintances, and fresh beginnings.  But piles of old news will squeeze those things out the window.  

You have an old news “garbage” problem if you find you are constantly focused on reliving events like a job loss, a marriage breakup, a financial meltdown, an accident, and/or other unfortunate realities in your past.  Although these events cannot be changed, they are actually over and out the back door.  They don't define you today.  BUT they can reenter and replay forever if you open the door and invite them back.  The truth is, they’re tired – they just want to leave (not to mention your friends who have been listening to these stories over and over again...).  

Want to breathe fresh air?  Then dispose of your old news before it suffocates you.

Learn to see the good things in your present life, magnify them, and exercise your power to create your future the way you want it to be.  A professionally certified Life Coach will help.  Contact one of us - we're waiting for you.

Author Gayla Doucet - A Certified Creative Life and Talent Management Coach (International Coach Federation) and a member of the Phoenix Chapter of the ICF. Find her at People Powered Solutions LLC (www.pplpowered.com), LinkedIn, and ZoomInfo.

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