Spring Cleaning and Attachment
by Michelle LaBrosse, PMP
Your Level of Attachment Drives Many Other Aspects of Your Life
Several years ago I was studying attachments. I realized the strength of my attachments actually were limiting new experiences in my life. I liked Miquel Ruiz’s book on the Five Level’s of Attachments and looked at it through four different perspectives.
1. How my behavior went from accepting to judging as my attachment levels increased.
2. How my strategies were impacted from go with the flow to more controlling for increasing levels of attachments.
3. How my ability to respond to situations went from flexible to rigid based on how attached I was.
4. How my actions went from spontaneous to predictable based on my level of attachment.
Since it was spring, I looked around at all the clutter in my life and realized – I was choking in the largesse of attachment. Did I really need to build a new garage to hold all my treasures I was so deeply attached to? Or, did it make more sense to liberate myself from all these attachments and right size my life with a cleaner and clutter free space?
Recently someone posted on the Cheetah Learning Facebook page, that instead of taking Cheetah’s PM of Spring Cleaning class, they could use the money just to hire someone to do the spring cleaning for them. While on the surface, this might sound like a good idea, the reality is – when you do that, you allow a stranger to decide for you those things important for you to keep. Spring Cleaning is an activity you have to do yourself as it is about freeing yourself from those attachments no longer serving you – and only you can decide that. And this is a view I’ve grown rather attached to after living a life where I had no idea where much of my treasurers were anymore because I had so much stuff other people put away for me. Doing my own spring cleaning got me back in touch with what was worthy of my attachment and what was not.
You can break your attachments to your stuff and live a more free and easy life. Take Cheetah’s PM of Spring Cleaning – use the promotion code – notattached and get this 40 PDU course for $400.
