Time Line & To Do List 10/16/18

This will be a living breathing document...as they would say in the professional world. In my new world this is my...I hope I am doing the right thing plan. After speaking with my Financial Advisor and Therapist, who I would like to refer to as my Life Coach and a new friend I have picked a 'D Day.' That is hard to type. It is hard to type that, ' I have made a decision. I am taking control of my life. I am creating a plan and giving myself grace during the next 365 days. I will not look at set backs as mistakes but as learning opportunities and I will welcome all adventures with a open mind.' That should be my mission statement. Ha! Let's get back on track. My Financial Advisor wants my D Date to be November 16, 2018. Why? My last large vest of stocks is November 15, 2018. In his eyes I am not gaining anything by staying through peak, especially because November and December can be the most stressful times of the year for leaders or anyone at Amazon. I am not gaining anything by staying through peak. That is not my style, to leave people in the heat of the battle. I have given 10 years to the teams I have worked for and the people I have serviced. I haven't given the past 10 years to a company. The company, and brand of Amazon is not why I have stayed this long. The relationships, the individual faces and humans, the way I am able to positively effect others...that is why I have stayed. My Life Coach wants me to leave before the new year. We all have at least 1 thing in common. We are afraid that if I do not do this change soon that I will be in the same position in a year, in 10 years, and then when I am 48. It is now or never. Honestly, this all works out when you look at it. I have just decided that my D Day is November 30th.

I am 28 - my financial advisor started a new career at 28. His assistant left her job and started school in college at 28....we all had a 'quarter life crisis.'

November 30th is on a Friday...so I finish out the week at work. Ha! That's a silly reason. Right now my Life Coach would say, 'why is that a silly reason? It was meant to be. Don't place judgement on your decisions.' And to that I say, 'Thank you!'

It gives me 45 days.

It is half way through peak. Just in time to escape the winter in Louisville, KY. Which isn't a winter...it's like a miserable gloomy cloud that reminds you that the next 4 months are going to be wet, dark, and you're still going to have to make it to work some how in the ice and sleet. Okay, so that went to a dark place I didn't realize I was headed towards but obviously I needed to get that out. So, thanks for baring with me.

There was another reason and now I have forgotten it. It'll hit me and I'll come back and update this. We need to move on to the important stuff and I am just delaying at this point. I am delaying because this is actually becoming a reality. This has been a fantasy for so long I just thought it would always be a fantasy. Then, after dreaming of my fantasy on my way to work I would just tuck it in the glove department and leave it there until I finished my 12 hour day. I would then get back in the car, get my fantasy out of the glove department, and play with it for 30 minutes until I got home. That was it. Now is different. I have committed to my Financial Advisor and Life Coach that I am doing this. And more importantly I have committed to my self that I am making this life change.

November 30th.

• What do I need to do? 
• Purge my home - I need to get rid of everything but photos, magnets, technology, basic clothing, camera equipment, etc. 
• Sell the following 
• 2 Couches, 3 TV's, 2 Dressers, 2 knight stands, 3 rocking chairs, 1 kitchen table & chairs, decorations, mower, 2 closets of clothes, 20 pairs of shoes, a Christmas tree, trinkets, etc. 
• Sell my Nissan Maxima because it isn't going to pull a a small camper. Sell my Escape because it's worth $1,000 and it's not going to get my future living quarters far. 
• Sell my home. 
• What do I need in the next chapter of my life? 
• A affordable paid for vehicle that can pull a small camper. 
• A small camper or living quarters. 
• Health Insurance
• A financial plan of either - 
• What do I need financially to live off of per month - or- 
• What do my finances look like on day 366?