{23} Jesus – You’ve got mail!

Written By: AnneBH - Sep• 18•11

Ok so 23 days to go. It’s 7.45am Sunday and I have sacrificed my lie in to write my blog.
My prayed-for intuitive idea today is to tackle the clutter which like a ball and chain around a prisoner’s ankle will no doubt impede my progress as I scramble nimbly (ahem) up the mountainside of recovery. The particular clutter I refer to consists of two boxes and an entire filing cabinet of unopened bills and letters. What you are actually looking at is the body of the ostrich, the head is burried deep within the cabinet, the only substitute for a pile of sand I could find in my office. The super-strength, super absorbent box of tissues will come in handy to mop up the blood, sweat and tears.
So today I start off by tackiling my demons of which currently there are many; with the bills piled up neatly on one side, the letters on another, and a pile of lever arch files at the ready.  All of these have to be entered into my accounts software which will filter out the smaller pile of paid debts from the mountain of unpaid ones.  I use the word ‘mountain’ loosely, I don’t have a mountain of debt, I have an entire range of mountains that is likely to give the Himalayas a real complex  soon.
As I sit pondering what to do about the bills, Seiwa, my closest friend calls.  Seiwa has an undiminishing store of medicine bottles, each one labelled ‘Laughter – shake well after use’ which she generously dispenses anytime, night or day. “I’m in a rush”, she said, “but I had to tell you this”, she continued. “I was listening to a Keith Moore recording today (you’ll hear more about this wonderful man of God too), and he tells this story about a guy who opens up his bills every morning and holds them aloft cheerfully. Jesuuuus – he yells, you’ve got mail!”.  I Love it! “Jesuuuus”, I’m yelling at the top of my voice now, “You’ve got loads of mail!”.

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4 Comments

  1. Lorraine Sweeney says:

    I love the blog – dont worry Anne, He is boiling the kettle now, to brew his cup of tea ready to go through them!

  2. Lisa Roberts says:

    Two days after this blog post, and I’m wondering how your bill-sorting/admin-ordering is going? Clutter is really so much more damaging than we realise… Even the thought of the washing that needs hanging and the mountain of unfolded laundry on my floor that needs to be housed in their drawers makes me feel antsy and clogged. Like cholesterol for my soul. Nasty. And I’m still in my pyjamas. I’m getting up now to unblock the arteries to my creative heart! Let us know how your mountain of paper gets demolished, if only piece by peace (*wink*)
    PS. I read the biweekly newsletter from Leo Babauta called ‘Zen Habits’ — and he has honestly transformed a LOT of my thinking about creativity, money, values and being in the moment.

  3. Anne says:

    Well from one pyjamas wearer to another (thinking guiltily that I must go upstairs, shower and change)… the bill sorting has been separated, the wheat from the chaff. The process unfortunately is not a quick one (we are talking 6 months of paperwork here). However, the chaff will be incenerated and the wheat sorted and logged into my accounts system and filed. Time has been allocated for this, along with time for painting, blogging and that darn printing work.
    Slept in this morning and woke with a start at 9am so my day has to be reorganised. I sm off upstairs to get changed 🙂

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