2022-02-27 — The Great Purge

Hiya, all you wonderful people you. 🙂

Guess what?!?! Barring anything crazy or completely forgotten about, 2021 is now done. For the first time in my financial/tax efforts, I actually met one of my goals, and now it’s done.

Done!!! 🥳🥳🥳

I just have to copy the file for my accountant and send it off to her. I’m gonna wait a couple of days, or so, just in case my brain remembers something else that needs to be on the spreadsheet I send her, but… I think we’re done!

What next? Well, perhaps I’ll call what comes next The Great Purge. 🙃 My life is about to radically change–on so many fronts, but one of the first endeavors is to clean house–literally. I’m going to go through everything I own and just get rid of anything I don’t use/don’t need (provided it’s not memory stuff). I want to be as lightweight as possible, as free to move around and go wherever I want to go and do whatever I want to do without the baggage of having stuff anchoring me down.

I’m not completely free yet, of course. I have business projects and financial stuff to finish tying up–a lot of that to do still, in fact–but the shift to the new life is underway. I can feel it. I’ve been catching myself smiling and bubbling up a little bit as it’s starting to sink in that I’m actually regaining my freedom.

And oh how sweet it is. 😁

To be able to have time to relax and just be without these huge, suffocating tasks hanging over my head–tasks that I couldn’t pass off to someone else, couldn’t even pay someone else to do because my brain was the only source to find the needed data.

It’s been so so so heavy for years now–suffocatingly so… so heavy I’d just run and hide on occasion from how much had to be done, not wanting to face it. But that just made it worse.

No more. The heaviest lifting is done. Plenty of odds and ends still need to be completed, but I’ll get those knocked out soon–very soon.

And… it’s amazing to look at my room and see a floor. The piles and piles and piles of papers–papers here, papers there, papers everywhere–are no more! I have three piles–one for 2019, one for 2020, and one for 2021. Well, I have some other unrelated piles that I created today as I begin my great purge, but that’s different.

I can see and now even use my yoga mat!

Funny. 🙃

I need to get some office boxes to put all my business receipts and paperwork in. I need to go through all my memory stuff and organize it all. Too much of my life’s tangible memory makers (pictures, trinkets, receipts, etc.) are just dumped in bins. I want them organized chronologically. I want to go through all my clothes, all my belongings, all my tools, all my everything–and just clean house. Donate stuff, sell stuff, whatever.

What else… oh, today I got my 2015 Nissan Sentra pretty much as ready as I’m going to make it to sell. I jimmy rigged on the broken grille, scraped off the auction stickers it still had on it, and cleaned out the trash that was in it. The car doesn’t look awful anymore. It actually looks pretty nice. I mean, it’s obviously been in a fender bender–the hood mashed up a little bit–but it looks pretty decent. I’m gonna spend about 20 minutes vacuuming and wiping down the interior, and then it’s going up for sale to be sold as is. Then it’ll be gone. Gone gone gone. After that, the dozer goes. And it’ll be good riddance to that one.

Well, my peeps, progress. Real progress. Solid progress.

The great change is coming to my life, where it takes me, I don’t know, but it’s on. The journey awaits. Perhaps I’ll go fight for Ukraine. Perhaps I’ll stick around and try to bring peace to my own country. Perhaps I’ll convince the world to change the way the spell English. Perhaps I’ll travel the world. Perhaps I’ll run for president.

Perhaps I’ll do all of it.

My love to all of you.

Lift the World.

~ stephen