Journals, trinkets, notes, wedding announcements, graduation programs, and photos. All the memorabilia that you and I keep in boxes, on the wall, or crammed in bookshelves and drawers.

I've chosen to go through it all and finally decide what to do with it - keep, take a picture and save digitally, pass on to someone else, or just spend a moment honoring it and what I've learned and ditching it.

This process is important to me - to physically free myself from carting it around. And, pull the lessons of the past that are holding me back in the here and now.

I gained a new awareness as I continued the process this week. Thanks to a coaching session with my friend and coach MJ Walsh.

And, it came through taking a look at what I was making a small pile of storage bins mean in my life.

I hope you tune in and think about the trade-offs you are making in your life as well.