It’s with much sadness that my family has decided to move on from our beautiful little home outside of Los Angeles. It’s going on the market tomorrow.

My house in the “burbs” of Los Angeles

Even though we love this home, we ran into some very interesting obstacles that have proved to be insurmountable. As a success coach, I routinely advise people to identify the areas of their life that have tolerations, release things they are putting up with, or handle stuff they get distracted by because it isn’t the way they need it to be. This decision is the ULTIMATE in taking my own personal “Clean Sweep Challenge” so I thought I’d share with you my decision process.

1. My Home Office Needs

When we bought this house, we were told that DSL had just come to the area. Being slightly ignorant about the area we were surprised about the comment. What we quickly learned was it was “satellite DSL”. I had no idea how painful satellite is. Let’s just say that the first company was down as much as it was up. The 2nd company was five times as expensive and almost as slow as dial up. As an information marketer who uses the internet on a minute-by-minute basis, this has been one of the biggest tolerations in my life!!!!

To truly be as efficient and effective as I desire, the need for a fast, reliable DSL connection has won. I’m counting down the days till I can jump on my computer and visit web pages as quickly as I can blink my eyes (I can actually make a sandwich with the time it takes to load some pages!!!)

2. The

Oy Vey! When we looked at the house originally, the woman said, “Oh and you will love the peacocks, they are so beautiful. They make this really interesting noise too…kinda like a woman screeching.” Again, being ignorant to the daily life of peacocks, this didn’t phase us until….mating season!Imagine all around you, in trees, tops of fences and even your own yard are wild peacocks that are screaming louder than a bull horn. We later learned that no one will do anything to relocate them so the neighborhood is just screwed.

Again, the clean sweep challenge won in my heart. They are beautiful but highly annoying. They have ruined my lawn furniture with their big claws and decide that 3 am is a great time to start talking to each other — meaning I don’t get good sleep in my own bed. It’s just become unacceptable!

3. The neighborhood.

Have you ever heard the saying “You are as successful as the five people you spend the most time with.” Well, I’ve decided you are as sane as the sanity of the five people who live closest to you. Let’s just say that being out in the “country” give the freedom of keeping roosters, riding motorbikes past your front door and other undesirable behavior that I’m done putting up with. We also seem to have a lot of construction in our area so we regularly have big trucks, lots of dirt and noise, ……don’t mean to complain but I guess it’s just gotten under my skin!

It is truly amazing how when you have a certain standard of living and your neighbors choose not to live by it, how it affects your focus, energy and sanity. I probably would not have made the choice to leave on this issue alone, but it added up with the other 2 and, well, it’s just time to go.

I’ll keep you posted. With the real estate market the way it is this transition might take a while. I’m keeping my attention and energy on the perfect right timing for me, my family and the world around us. I know there is someone who would love the energy of this neighborhood…we have plenty of neighbors who love it here!

P.S. Want to do your own Clean Sweep Challenge and release things that are holding you back? Join us for the next one on October 5th at www.cleansweepchallenge.com.