While trying to make it in this business all of us, at one time or another, have found ourselves being blocked by the trash in our heads. The doubts, the fears, the anxiety and all the other tapes that keep playing in our head to keep us from moving forward.

“Take out the trash” is a concept in the movie Peaceful Warrior which is based on the book by Dan Millman. The trash in your head is the one thing that is keeping you from living in the hear and now. The more we live in the moment, the more aware we are of our surroundings and the less chance there is of missing an opportunity that might present itself.

Everyone has trash that needs to be taken out. Some of us have more than others. I seem to have enough trash to fill a garage. To get rid of the trash you must identify the trash which can be difficult since you have been dragging it around most of your life. How many of you have a shirt in your closet you have not worn for 10 years?

Get to it. Start taking out the trash before it takes you out.

Sam Malinowsky