ο»ΏHey, my friend, what is up and welcome back to another episode of Do Life Big. Today is going to be a really awesome episode because we are going to be talking about how we can access our true potential by doing a deep cleaning. Now you know how good it feels right to every once in a while, go through and purge your closets or you go through your house, and you just get rid of all the stuff like all the crap that's just been laying around that you haven't used forever, that you may not have even known was there, you just get rid of it. Because it's just not serving you anymore, right? I've been doing the exact same thing, specifically in terms of going through like the kids' rooms.
For example, now that all three kids are in school all day long, I'm like, good, this is great. And I can finally go through their closets. I can finally go through each of their rooms one at a time. And just purge and just get rid of all the clothes, you know, that don't fit them anymore and donate them and all the toys that are broken or missing pieces. And I need to go through my closet too. As I'm recording this in my closet, I'm looking around being, like, this closet really needs to happen next, you know, just to have the opportunity to be able to go through and get rid of all the things that we don't use or need anymore.
So today, we're going to be specifically talking about a deep cleaning, but a deep cleaning, not in terms of necessarily your house, specifically, but more of you as a person, everything that pertains to you on talking about your thoughts. Specifically, I want you to take a while to just look around and ask yourself, Do I need this? Is this serving me? You know, can you let it go? So specifically, we'll be touching on your thoughts, and your habits, and your relationships and how we can purge. The things in those three areas that are no longer serving us are propelling us forward and moving us closer to where we want to be. So imagine that every little thing that you own, from your car, to your house, to the pens and all the random things that you have just laying around in that drawer in your kitchen. Thinking of mind right now, everything, just imagine now that each little thing occupies a little piece of space. In your mind. Each little thing owns a small piece of your brain; it's taking up space. How much of our brain is really scattered all over the place? Because of this stuff, all of this crap, right? All these random things? How can we make things simpler for ourselves, right?
What if we could get rid of all these things that aren't serving us anymore? How much better would that make us feel? You know, so if it's not serving me, and if it's not serving you, then there's no reason to have it anymore. And when I talk about is a serving you? What I mean is, is it helping you get to where you want to go in life? And so if it's not helping you, then there's no real reason why we should keep holding on to it. But I know how it is to hold on to things and almost like hoard things and think, Well, you know, I don't want to get rid of this right now. Because maybe in the future, I will need this thing that I've had tucked away in my closet for like 17 freaking years, right? It's like, you know, you don't really need it. But you had that thought, well, maybe I will. You never know; maybe I should hold on to it. Just purge those things. Why not just like, Oh, those things, right? Now not talking about being a minimalist here. When I'm saying purge and get rid of all these things, what I'm talking about is just making things more simpler, so we can have more mental space. That's what's so important.
You know, it's funny when I talk about being a minimalist when we first moved to this house here in Florida, and I was doing all these workouts, and I was filming myself, and I was putting them up on my Instagram stories. And I had this message from someone, and she said, oh my gosh, there's like nothing in that room. What do you have, minimalist? And it was just because we were really slow to furnish this house, far from being a minimalist. Now I look around, and I'm like, holy moly, it's time to start to get rid of some things here, the less, the better. But anyway, I'm digressing.
You know, all too often, you know, we hold on to these things that we really don't need anymore. And these could be physical things, these could be thoughts, these could be other people. And because we think that we may need it later on in life, but really, what it's doing is just weighing you down in life. And when you purge out, if you've ever gotten rid of things and purge, and just like gone on, like a cleaning spree, for anything in any area, right, your garage or house or closet, whatever, you know, don't you feel like so much lighter, and so much better, and you feel so much more mental clarity, you know, you can move faster, you just feel overall, like light, and I feel so much better. And when you do that, life becomes more effortless, and you could think quicker on your feet. Now, if you've never done this before, trust me, I'm telling you, when you do it for the first time, you're going to feel like a whole new person, you're gonna feel like a different person, a better person. So here's what you're going to do, I want you to take one day and just get rid of everything that is not serving you or propelling you to get better. Now, this isn't just physical cleaning raw; that is good. And you should do that. That is definitely a part of it. The more important piece in what we're going to focus on is that mental and emotional deep cleaning. And so when I talk about getting rid of all those old pens that don't work anymore, for example, that have been sitting in that kitchen drawer, that's great. But what I'd prefer that you do is that you get rid of that toxic relationship that's been lingering around.
You know, just because you've known this person for a long time or since middle school, right? If it's toxic, you need to protect your own mental well-being, You keep thinking, in your mind, how you've known this person for so long, or oh my gosh, like it would be mean, to not be friends with this person anymore. But then there's also this part of you that knows that they're holding you back. And when you do hang out with this person, you leave the situation feeling worse, right? That's what I'm talking about. Or even just talking crap about yourself, like that's not going to serve you. So that awareness of being like, is the way I'm talking to myself helping me, or is it hurting me? Even just having that awareness is huge. Listen, I apologize. If I sound off this episode, my throat is all sore and scratchy. Anyways, you know, hitting your goals is hard enough. But if you're mean to yourself, it's going to make it ten times harder, right? It'd be like, as I was trying to run the Boston Marathon back in 2009, which I, like, almost died doing. Literally, a guy with an oxygen tank was passing me, which I did say; well, of course, he's passing me; he's got an oxygen tank. Anyways, it'd be like it was as if I was trying to run this Boston Marathon back in 2009. Someone was punching me in the face at the same time, right? Like, why make something that's already hard, harder for you? So think about what goes on inside your own head. How are you talking to yourself? Would you ever say these things to someone that you loved and cared about? Because all too often, we are our own worst critics. And this is where your thoughts in your head. Really, it is the most important indicator of the kind of life that you want to live in the kind of person that you want to be. And that is why I'm so big on practicing and teaching people how to change the way that they think. And so, if you have not grabbed my free guide that I've put together that has 19 of the most common limiting beliefs, negative thoughts that people think about themselves in their mind, and how to replace them with the more empowering positive belief, then you should definitely go check it out and snag it today. You can just go to Kathireuter.com/thinkthisnotthat. I will make sure it's in the show notes. But so, so, so important. What fears do you have? Are they helping, or are they hurting you?
And listen, you might have a ton of different thoughts that you know you need to let go of, but just focus on one at a time because it's not easy. You know, these ways of thinking about yourself have become habits and a part of who you are. But they can be changed. So one at a time. And please remember to just please be patient with yourself. That's key. Give yourself some time, maybe your pessimism, and you can start to think, is this really helping me to get to where I want to go, or is it hurting me to be more pessimistic? So spend a lot of time thinking about how you talk to yourself. What are those thoughts that you think on a regular basis? And you know, maybe you're someone who doesn't talk crap about yourself? Maybe you don't do that. But maybe when you have these ideas of things that you want to do, you start to think, you know, yeah, I mean, I would really love to be able to do that. But I really just don't know what I'm doing. And I'm not really a motivated person. So you constantly talk yourself out of the things that you initially wanted to try. Is that mindset helping you or hurting you?
So that mental deep cleaning that I'm talking about, I honestly believe, is the most important. And so we just touched on our thoughts. And now we're going to just touch on our on our habits. Now after thinking about the thoughts, now we can look at what are our habits because 47% of what you do on a daily basis is because of your habits. So can we start to become more aware of what those daily habits are? So let's look at our habits. For example, if you have a habit of waking up early in the morning to get your workout in order to journal, that's definitely a habit that you want to keep. That's a good habit that's going to move you closer to where you want to go. It's serving you keep that habit. But if you have a habit of sitting on the couch at 11 pm at night and shoving Twinkies down your throat, well, that habit is really not going to serve you. That's not going to help you get to where you want to go. So you can start to think about all these daily habits from the moment that you wake up until the moment you go to bed at night and go through each one. Is this one helping me, or is this one hurting me, and then let go of the ones that aren't serving you anymore, one by one.
And then the next category that we want to talk about are our relationships. And this is a big one. And this one can sometimes be very difficult. And it can also be triggering for some people. But go through each person that you know and you have a relationship with and ask yourself, Is this relationship helping me? Or is it hurting me? And this could be anyone, this could be a friend, this could be family, it could be a significant other, it could even be the people that you follow on social media. If someone is holding you back in life, if someone is talking down to you, or making you feel less than if they make your life less peaceful, no matter who they are, there should be an opportunity that if you want to, you can let them go, you can distance yourself because some people are just toxic. You never really know what other people are going through. And so you know, you might be someone who has, like myself, who has, you know, a great relationship with your parents, like I do with mine. But there are a lot of other people who aren't as fortunate. They're not in those same situations. So you should start to distance yourself away from those people. You know what I'm talking about? distancing yourself, you know, even from people on social media.
I remember when I started my very first business, it was my online health and fitness business, about nine years ago. And I remember I chose from the beginning not to follow any of the top entrepreneurs in that industry. Because I did not want to fall into the comparison game. And I didn't want to feel like I had to be like those people to build a successful business. I didn't want to get caught up in this; oh, well, I have to do exactly what they're doing. Or I have to share the way that they're sharing, or I have to look the way that they look. And I have to act the way they have to act. I didn't want to have that. Enter my mind. I didn't want to get caught in that comparison trap. I just wanted to do it my way and be me. So I chose not to follow any of them. And I always joke about it. Because, you know, my husband and I still joke about it to this day because he would mention certain top entrepreneurs in the industry. And I would be like, who is that? And he'd be like Kathi, how could you not know who this I'm like, Well, I don't follow them. I'm not gonna go down that trap. So literally, my husband would know more about who these top entrepreneurs were in the industry, and I didn't know who they were. So ask yourself, maybe the people that you're following is it helping you or hurting you? Right? And you can do this also, like I know, we went over, you know, the main components that I really wanted to touch on, which was, you know, deep cleaning on our thoughts, and our habits and our relationships.
But you can literally do this and should do this. With everything and anything, you can do this for the food that you have in your house. The money that you spend and how you spend it, what you spend it on, how much TV you watch, you know your technology. You know, maybe you're spending too much time watching TV every day. Could you maybe start to get rid of doing it that much? Or what about how much time you spend on social or media do you need to maybe take it off your phone? And the good thing is, too, is that with a social media thing, if you try taking it off your phone and try limiting your time, you know, you can always just try it for like 30 days, see how you do, if you don't like it, just put it back on your phone and go right back to what you were doing before. But you know, personally, myself, you know, I don't aimlessly scroll on social media, and I did back in the day get really stuck down that habit of just, you know, getting going down that rabbit hole where we looking at one thing and one thing leads to the next and next thing you know, it's like 45 minutes, and I haven't done anything productive. Now, I only go on social media for my business stuff, right? Put my podcast things up, making posts, making reels all pertaining to my business. And the last thing I want to say is, and this is a big one, you know, think about like your vision and your goals for your life. Right? Maybe there are some things that you had on your vision board for the year that just don't align anymore, You could go through and you could change those. But what we're really trying to do here is to clear out anything that does not serve you or propel you to where you want to go. Or it isn't helping bring you closer to the type of person who you want to become. And this is how you can really access your true potential. You can access your true potential by going through a deep cleaning of all these different areas in your life, physical and not only just physical, but your thoughts, your habits, your relationships, everything. And so we don't want anything getting in the way of us accessing our true potential.
So if you've never done this before, do it this upcoming weekend, you know, take a day, pick a day, Sunday, whatever. And yes, it's going to be a lot of work. But you know what? So is creating the kind of life that you want. And you'll have so much more mental clarity. After doing this is how you access your true potential. And I'm all about that. And I'm all about constantly trying to improve, constantly trying to get better, and constantly trying to share my tips that can help you Do Life Big and live your best life too. So I hope that you enjoy today's episode. So thankful to have you here. You know, I love you. I think you're awesome. And I will see you the next time. Bye.
