2021-11-10 — Grinding

Hello, my lovelies! 😊

You alive out there?

Happy Wednesday. 🙂

To be honest, I’m not feeling the greatest at the moment, emotionally… or whatever… because I was annoyed that I couldn’t text and drive, wanting to communicate with someone and not being able to, so I went against my own integrity and did it anyway, and I feel kind of crappy. So… that’s… that. Glad I feel crappy. Don’t know why this habit is so hard to kick. Just… do it, stephen. Good gravy!

Anyway, it’s been a decent day, honestly. Pretty low key. I took it easy. I’m pretty burned out with cars, and thinking about everything that I want to do, I think it makes it even more… present? (the feeling of wanting to be done and move on). Like the finish line is closer.

Anyway, I got a late start today (working on cars, the morning routine was good). I had someone call asking about computer repair help, so I talked to Thomas and he talked to the potential customer, and it was sort of a good first run, but it did take a while. I also spent some extra time trying to get some tax stuff done that was taking more time than I’d hoped. But I got through that part of it–well, mostly, at least.

I only did two cars today (I was dragging a good bit), and I was only paid for one because the part was not available for the first one, so I’ll go back and finish it on Friday.

Did that one. Took many hundreds of dollars worth of parts back. Bought hundreds of dollars worth more. 🙃 Went to another one that was a super quickie for a customer I’ve had for years that uses me regularly. And that was pretty much that.

I found out today that the kid who bought my Versa turned around and sold it by crossing the sales info off the title and selling it to someone else as if I’d sold it directly to them–for more money than what I actually sold it for.

It’s a felony, if you’re unaware, to “jump” a title like that–buy it and then sell it without ever putting it in your name. I found that out because the guy who bought the car from the kid who bought it from me showed up at our house today asking if we could sign an affidavit saying I was the one who altered the title with the new info.

Yeah, no.

So I let the kid know, and at first he seemed like he might be willing to do something about it (I told him it’d be best if he returned the money, got the car back, and dealt with the title debacle he created himself, as he’s made a mess for the poor person who bought it from him, and he’s wasted a good bit of my time as well). Well, after telling him what he ought to do, and after letting him know what he did is a felony (I’d told him when he bought it, knowing he was going to try to resell it after fixing it, I told him that legally he had to title it in his name first before he could sell it. He didn’t do it. He knew full well, and he didn’t do it. And he hasn’t replied since I told him to return the car, etc.

So… I guess I’ll be making out a police report tomorrow, as what he did makes it look like my business sold the car for more than what it did. Not cool.

Anyway, so that took some time today.

Daily Reflection: It’s been a good day. I’m a little low energy and still feeling like something is missing inside of me, something isn’t quite right. I’ll figure that out.

Gratitude:

1. I’m grateful that I’ve been able to relax a bit more and take it easy and not push so hard with fixing cars lately.
2. I’m grateful that I had the courage to persevere with exercise this morning. It wasn’t, perhaps, any longer than other exercise sessions, but there was a point when I wanted to quit, and I was a razor’s edge from it, but I didn’t. I pushed through, finished multiple additional sets, and then called it good.
3. I’m grateful I had the courage to take a cold shower. Self discipline is hard in that arena when it’s getting colder and colder outside. The water heater water comes from the basement, so it gets colder and colder as the temperature drops in the basement. It’s still pretty arm, though, I think. So… I can’t whine too much. I bet it’s a lot warmer than what it feels like. 🙃
4. I’m grateful to be making steady progress in so many areas–personal, business, environment, etc.
5. I’m grateful for orange juice. Good stuff.
6. I’m grateful it was warmer today and didn’t rain on me.
7. I’m grateful that I’m doing pretty well at bed time. It’s later than I’d wanted it to be, but it’s still much earlier than my old habits. (8:51 right now).
8. I’m grateful that I was able to pop right out of bed at 5 and do pushups again to wake me up.
9. I’m grateful there are white noise apps on phones, so that my mom can have the app playing and significantly reduce the likelihood that I’ll wake her up with an errant noise early in the morning.
10. I’m grateful to have happy customers who say nice things about what I do.

Thought of the Day:

1. “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Accountability:

• Bed last night at 8:30: Almost?
• Up at 4: Check
• 5x5s: Check
• Exercise: Check
• Cold shower: Check
• Meditation: Check
• Breakfast: Check
• NP Work: Check
• Tax Work: Check
• Lunch: Check
• Work done by 6: Check!!!!
• Dinner: Check
• Only truly healthy foods: Close?
• No Wasted Life: Check
• No Distracted Driving: 😬🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
• Faced a Fear: I keep forgetting this!!!! How am I going to remember this!?!?!
• Tamed the tongue: I think I was good today?

My love to all you wonderful people you!

Lift the World

~ stephen