Finally I Can Rest and It's as Great as I Always Thought It Would Be!
When I was still working my full-time job I used to think, and tell people...
"When I achieve this massive goal, and am finally FREE, I think I will spend the first 3 weeks or maybe a full month doing almost nothing. A lot of sleeping. To recharge from a lifetime of endlessly pushing myself".
Despite my strong focus, sometimes it seemed like the day would never come.
"I'm getting there... keep going!"
It's like I was always "getting there" but never actually THERE. lol
Finally... "just another 6 months and I AM DONE!".
However, even though I was so burned out, I still wasn't able to rest. When you live in the same home for 20 years it tends to accumulate a lot of stuff.
I'd already been working on clearing out my house before I quit my job.
Beginning the very next day... after my last job day... I literally spent from early morning until night working on the house, going through things, breaking down stuff, clearing stuff out.
Basically 12 hours of actual work, 7 days per week, for 15 weeks straight.
On top of clearing out my home, I gave my vehicles to family, canceled services (Internet, etc), notified the county of my moving overseas... all of the "busy work" needed to untether myself from my USA life.
I was still working clearing out the house 15 minutes before my ride came to take me to the airport.
By the time I got on the plane I was completely exhausted. I already had a lifetime of pushing myself and then 3.5 months of this intense work to unwrap my USA life.
When I arrived over here to start my life in a different country... I had another ~3 months of busy work to get everything set up. LOL!
Mid November I finally reached the point where I had nothing pressing that I needed to do.
FINALLY, this month I'm just truly RELAXING!
And I can say.. it IS everything I always thought it would be. =)