Checking Your Junk Filter and How Checking Mine Got Me on HGTV

You should check your junk filter. You really should.

I mean this literally as well as metaphorically,

When the channel HGTV came out a couple of decades ago, I dreamed about doing a show for them. This was a pipe dream because at the time I had no TV, nor home decorating experience.

As time went on and I forgot about my dream, I gained experience in both.

Several years ago, on one of the rare occasions I checked the junk folder for my email, there was a note from a casting director for HGTV. My old radio co-host, turned tiny house builder was doing a show for them. They wanted to talk to me about being the on camera interior designer.

Long story short, they did and I did.

Now I could talk about "The Law of Attraction," or the importance of "surrendering your desires to the universe" but I want to get a little more practical and a little less woo-woo.

I learned two very important things.

1) Make a habit of checking your junk folder for your email.
2) Make a habit of checking your junk folder for your head.

By not checking these, we can miss out on many things and opportunities. I dare to say checking the junk folder in your head is even more important.

Author Dr. Joe Dispenza says that our brain processes 400 Billion bits of information per second and we are only aware of 2,000 of them.

All that "unused" data goes somewhere. Although I'm fairly certain the scientific term is something like subconscious or unconscious, I like to think of it as my "mental junk folder."

We spend so much of our lives on autopilot, we have a rote way of doing, perceiving and acting.

Can you imagine if we started tapping into a FRAGMENT of the information we are constantly receiving?

Not surprisingly, if you have read any of my other columns, this all ties into mindfulness.

By paying attention, by being deliberate, by taking note of what is around us, we can open the door to a whole new world of possibility and opportunity