The approach of 30 gave me cause to reflect on my 20s. I spent some time trying to honestly evaluate who I was, what I was doing with my life, and where I was going. The more introspective I got the more unsatisfied I was with what I was seeing. Somewhere along the lines I allowed myself to get sucked into the day-to-day and was just burning away the my finite minutes living a life that didn’t make me happy.
In the coming months I made a decision to make changes. I didn’t know what changes I’d make yet, but I knew for sure that there was no way I was going to look back at the dawn of my 40’s and find that I had frittered away my 30’s as I had done the previous decade. So I began planning…
By the time February 2007 came I had made a budget for finishing the many house projects I had started (but never finished) over the years. By summer of ‘07 I realized that the budget wasn’t going to get me there in time, so I abandoned the budget in favor of the time line. Now, in May 2008 I have long since blown the budget and the house is close enough to being complete that I can start to taste freedom.
The cliff is within sight, soon I’ll be jumping…
