101 Ways to Move Forward After A Midlife Divorce

Tip #60. Clean out your junk drawer. During a midlife divorce, there are “junk drawers” all over the place. We usually have a physical junk drawer in the kitchen or the laundry room or even in our desk. Today is Saturday, just take 30 minutes to go through that drawer and throw away the stuff that you don’t use anymore or isn’t working or isn’t serving any positive purpose. During a midlife divorce is the time to become a “lean, mean fighting machine,” so while you’re cleaning out your junk drawer think of all the other “junk’ you have in your life right now. Bitterness? Whining? Victimology? Blame? Revenge? Rage? Trash? Trash Talk? As you throw useless stuff out of your junk drawer, commit to throw some useless stuff out of your life. The words above are clues. None of that list of junk helps you in the least. None of those things improves your life. In fact, all those things prevent you from having the life you deserve. Replace the junk in your junk drawer with sharpened pencils. Fresh note pads. Scissors. Tools that help. Replace the junk in your emotional life with optimism. Determination. Laughter. Friends. Resources. You have to throw out the junk to make room for the things that really work. Start today.