Comments on: Casting off the “Good Junk” http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/ Everyday Leadership Through Everyday Actions Tue, 27 Jul 2010 15:46:47 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: David Andrews http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-544 David Andrews Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:55:11 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-544 Hi Susan Thanks for a great article! I need to try this with myself, my kids, and actually probably my whole family. Who knows we may even find a spare room we lost a few years ago! Hoarding seems to be a great pastime in New Zealand (must be to do with our ill-defined national identity . . .) Really like your website - keep up the excellent work. Thanks David Hi Susan

Thanks for a great article! I need to try this with myself, my kids, and actually probably my whole family. Who knows we may even find a spare room we lost a few years ago! Hoarding seems to be a great pastime in New Zealand (must be to do with our ill-defined national identity . . .)

Really like your website – keep up the excellent work.

Thanks David

]]> By: Andy Parkinson’s World » Blog Archive » 1/7/10: Top Career Posts this Week http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Andy Parkinson’s World » Blog Archive » 1/7/10: Top Career Posts this Week Fri, 08 Jan 2010 00:32:44 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-543 [...] From Random Acts of Leadership: Casting off the “Good Junk” “For me 2009 was a year of tremendous learning and change, love and loss, as well as shedding stuff and organizing.  Now that the frenzy of activity has passed I have enjoyed some time to reflect on many things including lessons learned. The lesson revealed to me was one my dad tried to teach me more than once.  You see we moved quite a few times.  Each time he had us take things that were perfectly useful, but that we had not been using (or even remembered we had!) and put them in a box labeled “good junk”.  He would date the box.  One year later, after we were long since settled into our new home, he would take the box and donate it.” [...] [...] From Random Acts of Leadership: Casting off the “Good Junk” “For me 2009 was a year of tremendous learning and change, love and loss, as well as shedding stuff and organizing.  Now that the frenzy of activity has passed I have enjoyed some time to reflect on many things including lessons learned. The lesson revealed to me was one my dad tried to teach me more than once.  You see we moved quite a few times.  Each time he had us take things that were perfectly useful, but that we had not been using (or even remembered we had!) and put them in a box labeled “good junk”.  He would date the box.  One year later, after we were long since settled into our new home, he would take the box and donate it.” [...]

]]> By: Momentor » Blog Archive » 1/7/10: Top Career Posts this Week http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-542 Momentor » Blog Archive » 1/7/10: Top Career Posts this Week Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:58:49 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-542 [...] From Random Acts of Leadership: Casting off the “Good Junk” “For me 2009 was a year of tremendous learning and change, love and loss, as well as shedding stuff and organizing.  Now that the frenzy of activity has passed I have enjoyed some time to reflect on many things including lessons learned. The lesson revealed to me was one my dad tried to teach me more than once.  You see we moved quite a few times.  Each time he had us take things that were perfectly useful, but that we had not been using (or even remembered we had!) and put them in a box labeled “good junk”.  He would date the box.  One year later, after we were long since settled into our new home, he would take the box and donate it.” [...] [...] From Random Acts of Leadership: Casting off the “Good Junk” “For me 2009 was a year of tremendous learning and change, love and loss, as well as shedding stuff and organizing.  Now that the frenzy of activity has passed I have enjoyed some time to reflect on many things including lessons learned. The lesson revealed to me was one my dad tried to teach me more than once.  You see we moved quite a few times.  Each time he had us take things that were perfectly useful, but that we had not been using (or even remembered we had!) and put them in a box labeled “good junk”.  He would date the box.  One year later, after we were long since settled into our new home, he would take the box and donate it.” [...]

]]> By: Jeremy Nash http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-541 Jeremy Nash Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:33:47 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-541 Susan, I appreciate so much having the kick in the ass to rid myself, too, of those extra things that have felt so hard to let go of. Like, if I dumped many of those old files, I'd be losing some vital part of myself. Hmm ... suppose that isn't true? :-) Now is a time when I am creating new beginnings so it makes it very timely to let go of the old and, as you so wisely put it, trust. Keep these coming!! Jeremy Susan, I appreciate so much having the kick in the ass to rid myself, too, of those extra things that have felt so hard to let go of. Like, if I dumped many of those old files, I’d be losing some vital part of myself. Hmm … suppose that isn’t true? :-) Now is a time when I am creating new beginnings so it makes it very timely to let go of the old and, as you so wisely put it, trust.

Keep these coming!!

Jeremy

]]> By: Susan Mazza http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Susan Mazza Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:45:14 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-538 Funny! Although for the postage we could probably just buy new stuff. Funny! Although for the postage we could probably just buy new stuff.

]]> By: Susan Mazza http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-537 Susan Mazza Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:44:21 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-537 Thank you Jane. Looking forward to same with you starting with our blogging project this month! Thank you Jane. Looking forward to same with you starting with our blogging project this month!

]]> By: Susan Mazza http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Susan Mazza Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:42:37 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-536 Good luck Ava - be strong :-) Good luck Ava – be strong :-)

]]> By: Susan Mazza http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Susan Mazza Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:39:25 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-535 That first box for me felt a little like ripping off a bandaid! Go for it Walter. Thanks for your comment! That first box for me felt a little like ripping off a bandaid! Go for it Walter. Thanks for your comment!

]]> By: ava diamond (@feistywoman) http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-534 ava diamond (@feistywoman) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:00:57 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-534 Jane--great reminder as I head down into the basement and the huge number of file boxes down there this weekend! Jane–great reminder as I head down into the basement and the huge number of file boxes down there this weekend!

]]> By: Jane Perdue http://randomactsofleadership.com/2009/12/30/casting-off-the-%e2%80%9cgood-junk/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Jane Perdue Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:24:30 +0000 http://randomactsofleadership.com/?p=1541#comment-533 Susan -- what an excellent post! It's a great reminder to stop focusing on what we might miss in those old files, boxes, etc. and focus instead on the adventures, learnings, experiences that are yet to come. I'm looking forward to learning and sharing more with you! Susan — what an excellent post! It’s a great reminder to stop focusing on what we might miss in those old files, boxes, etc. and focus instead on the adventures, learnings, experiences that are yet to come. I’m looking forward to learning and sharing more with you!

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