Letting Go of Negative Associations

The thought-provoking advice and down-to-earth encouragement in Elizabeth Grace Saunders’ Schedule Makeover™ newsletter (recent issue below), is an example of the positive feedback you can expect to receive from Elizabeth in your personal quest for work, life, and organizational balance. To receive regular updates on fresh time management strategies and to learn more about her unique Schedule Makeover™ process, please visit ScheduleMakeover.com.

Your associations with “organized people” may make time management advice hard to swallow.

Let me explain…

When I go to a new restaurant, or I’m in a new place, I try to eat new foods. Some cuisine I find delicious. But other dishes I literally can’t swallow because I’m so disturbed at the thought of what’s in them. Objectively, the food might be tasty, but I’m emotionally repulsed by the mental association.

The same power of association holds true in other areas.

If you have negative associations with organized people or with the results of good time management, like having free time, it will be really hard for you to swallow any advice that will lead you toward something you find SO distasteful.

To uncover whether any of these biases may be holding you back from success, ponder these points:

When I imagine an “organized person,” who comes to mind?
- What type of feelings do I have toward this person?
- What adjectives would I use to describe him or her?
- What do I like and dislike about this individual?
- Do I want to be like this person? If so, why? If not, why not?
When I imagine myself being organized, what images come to mind?
- Are there any feelings other than peace and joy?
- Is there any sense of guilt? of fear?
- Is there any worry that I’ll lose my worth if I’m not serving or sacrificing or doing enough?
- Is there any resistance to letting go of daily drama?

Let your mind turn over these questions a bit… then think through how you could create new paradigms that free you to feel at peace with being organized.

Life can be Radically Different!

Elizabeth Grace

P.S.-Don’t feel bad if you uncover any prejudices against organized people! It’s not bad to have the feelings, just a problem if you don’t process and release them correctly.

About Real Life E®

Elizabeth Grace Saunders is the founder and CEO of Real Life E® a time coaching and training company that empowers individuals who feel guilty, overwhelmed and frustrated to feel peaceful, confident and accomplished through an exclusive Schedule Makeover^TM process. Real Life E® also increases employee productivity, satisfaction and work/life balance through custom training programs.

Elizabeth has appeared in Inc magazine, The Chicago Tribune, and on NBC. She was selected as one of the Top 25 Amazing Women of 2010 by Stiletto Woman and as a member of the Young Entrepreneurs Council featured in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, Mashable, and many other media outlets.

Elizabeth’s time coaching clients have the opportunity to go through her exclusive Schedule Makeover^TM life transformation process through phone coaching and custom action guides or in-person training.