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For a little while, we should all forget about clearing the desk, don't think about the ROI, ignore the next deadline.  In fact, for a little while, it would be wonderful if we tried to look at making ourselves and our businesses more productive from purely personal points of view.  I mean that we should start where it all starts -- in our heads.

Instead of thinking about how we can make more money, become more successful, refine our businesses, a better use of time might be to consider where we're wasting money by wasting energy, as in how we're letting thoughts and things eat our resources. No, I'm not talking about having the TV running in the background while we work, not the emails, the phone calls, or any of the other myriad of distractions that invade our days.  I'm talking about five things that invade our thoughts and successfully undermine our success.

It might be scary to total the hours we spend complaining about what someone did or didn't do, or the weather, or the traffic.  Add the time it takes to justify our reasons for forgetting, or being late, or being disagreeable.  Then consider how often we top those two off with a healthy dose of blaming something or someone.  Truly frightful is the almost incalculable time lost when we revel in feelings of guilt or anger.  Any ROI in any of that?

Consider this thought from Abraham-Hicks, excerpted from a workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th, 2001:

"Complaining about anything, holds you in the place of refusing to receive the things you've been asking for. Justifying about anything holds you in the place of refusing to let in the very things that you've been asking for. Blaming someone, holds you in the place of refusing to let in the things that you've been asking for. Feeling guilty, feeling angry, it doesn't matter what you call it, it is a refusal, not a conscious one. You're asking; you can't help but ask. The Universe is yielding; it must yield. It's a big question, folks: why aren't you letting it in?"

Sure, clearing the desk gives instant gratification because it has the appearance of all things being well.  Clearing the head takes a little longer, but the appearances last longer, too.

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