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I bet you’ve heard the saying “a diamond’s a girl’s best friend,” well I’m not so sure it’s true. Read the following  example of mine and you will know the real meaning.

About five years ago I received a wonderful present from my mother-in-law. She gave me a pair of 16 karat gold earrings that she had inherited. What’s more is that the earrings were covered with39  smallish but nearly perfect diamonds. It told you it was a wonderful present!

But there was a problem;the earrings were ugly and certainly not something I would ever wear. Since they were valuable I put them safely into my drawer . Last year, I told my husband that four years was long enough to be staring at ugly (but valuable) earrings. They weren’t taking up much space but I kept seeing them and they were making me feel stupid for not wearing them. I realized that it was time to either sell the earrings or turn them into something that I’ll enjoy. I decided to take the earrings, sell the gold and use the diamonds to make a bracelet that I would wear.

I have a client who had a storage unit. She helped me a lot.

When she found the real diamond I take to her. She felt very happy.I bet you have lots of potentially valuable things. Some of them are physical like my earrings but for most of us what’s even more valuable are our ideas. You may shove these ideas into drawers, piles, storage units or the recesses of your brain. You tell yourself that you’ll get around to doing it one of these days. In the meantime the ideas nag at you. They make you feel guilty, that somehow you should have already done it, used it or created it.I decided that it was time for me to do it. I spent the time, energy and money necessary to transform my ugly but valuable earrings into diamonds. My client looked at her situation and the amount of time, energy and money that she had invested over the years into her diamond and realized that for her it wasn’t worth it. With hindsight being 20/20 she wishes that she had just let go of the storage unit years ago. After all you can’t miss something you never even knew was there.

What about you?