How much are you going to carry?
Imagine a container. It may look like a jar, a box, a barrel, or a house. Whatever comes to your mind is appropriate, shape or material is not relevant. This is your container; it can be big or small.
There are characteristics of your container.
It has a size. The size of the container limits what can be contained within.
The container has volume, space that items and ideas can occupy. Only 100% of its space may be occupied.
It has displacement, only so much heaviness can be placed within or its ability to hold will be compromised.
It has weight; either partially of completely full, it will be heavy or light.
Do you have the picture?
What is in that container? Hope, dreams, success, failure, debt, goals, cars, money, relationships, regret, the list is never ending. Put everything in the container and look at it. Now pick it up and carry it everywhere you go.
I suggest that at one time you could pick it up and carry it without much thought. But then you added things to it. It got heavy and cumbersome. You needed more space, so you got a bigger container. You may have put the old container within the new one and continued adding over time.
Then it got too heavy. Can you remember when it got so heavy that you couldn’t hold it by yourself anymore? What did you do?
This is of course a metaphor for the weight of your life, the mental heaviness that you carry around. Has debt or relationship mistakes made your container so heavy and full that you just can’t carry any happiness or sense of freedom inside?
Can you empty some of the items? How can you make it lighter? Can you unload some of what no longer serves you? Can you make a change so that what keeps filling the container is valuable and helpful toward your goals?
I want to help you unload this container so that you can walk lighter, to go farther, and to reduce the weight you feel just by living every day. Schedule a time with me, let’s identify those items that no longer serve you and replenish your container with hope and prosperity.