My office looks like a mini Hurricane has passed through it. Loads more stuff has arrived all requiring being posted on eBay and gotten rid of. I've finally made a decision that all of my old books and files can just go as all they've been good for is trapping dust. If they don't go then they are going to Flocky Bicep's incinerator along with a lot of confidential documents. Stuff I've kept for years just in case can now be dumped and thrown away.
The Vinyl record collection that a dealer offered me a few hundred pounds for will go onto to eBay too and it can raise its market value on there and be gotten rid of. Unfortunately much of it will end up where it belongs in landfill or maybe I will see if a Charity Shop wants it.
I've been looking at stuff that I am "attached" to and do you know what? There isn't very much that I'm attached to at all really. There's stuff I want to keep - all my books, I love my books but my Vinyl and my CDs well - I don't need them - I have electronic versions after all. All my reference books from when I was an electrical engineer - are being offered to those whom I know and if they don't want them then they too will go to the incinerator or charity shop too.
The sheer amount of clutter and stuff stored away surprised me. All my musical instruments I'll keep though as I really ought to get back and play those - I used to derive pleasure from them but put them away years ago and didn't do anything further. What a waste.
Why all this activity? Well I got fed up with it all and wondered what on earth all the clutter was doing here? It isn't doing anything and it really could do with being thrown out - if someone else can use it - great - if not dump it. It serves no purpose.
The trouble with this is, once you've started clearing the place you end up causing a lot more clutter for a short period of time - in my office which is a pain in the arse because whilst doing this I am also trying to start my new business :-) Oh well bring it on.....
I'm still feeling great about my life and whilst not fully out of the brown smelly stuff, I can say that I am beginning to feel good and to start to let really enjoy this new found freedom. I've started to really pull the business plans together and start to ramp up my thinking and how I can go about running the business. It is a life style business centred around genealogy services and also photographic services. I've thought about this for a number of years and think that it's about time I just went and gave it a go - what's the worst thing that can happen? The main thing is to actually run it as a business and spend time building it and making it happen. There are lots of competitors out there but I'm sure I can bring my own style to it. Let's hope so.
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