Taste the Empty In Box

Phew, Martha, my Angel of Action, just left, and my inbox is empty.  

While the 2 days were full of insights and breakthroughs, the main Paradigm Shifters in her system, "First Steps First" for me were:

1. Your Email Inbox is not a To Do List and you do not need to be checking it all day long.

2. We did not "organize" my life, we put it in motion.  My understanding of organization was stagnant.  That eventually everything would have a perfect settled place and never need to be moved.  No wonder I was so resistant to tidiness,  I was equating organization with death!  Martha created a system for me that allows for continual review and flow.  She says: "Working effectively is about accessibility and functionality and not necessarily about organizing."

3. I was not following things through to completion.  Martha uses the eat, digest and poop analogy a lot.  This is familiar as it is in line with the Ayurvedic system, and I totally got that I was not allowing projects to run all the way through me.  I was storing, hording, afraid to let go.

4.  "The Willingness to LOOK".  You gotta see it before you can release it.  I would stuff papers in nooks and crannies and pretend that I would get to them.  Martha made me get to them and patiently and lovingly held the space while I did.   "No grazing" is a key rule.  

5. Our life is a series of Agreements.  In her paperwork, Martha has the statement, "Anger is often indicative of Broken Agreements."  This statement brings me to my "Mother Knot" and needs more exploration, but my immediate hit was that this is core to my whole life.

I am so incredibly grateful to and in love with Martha Ringer. Thank you thank you thank you. 

xo 

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