It took me a few weeks, but tonight I finally loaded up 300 pounds of old documents from my old businesses to take to the local “Shred-X” company on Monday…

It’s kind of hard to look at the accumulation of 10 years of your business life, and let it go…old sales reports, cash-flow projections, and accounts receivables and payables, just to name a few.

I’ve had a feeling for a few months that this “old stuff” was holding me back somehow, and I knew that it was going to painful to sort through all of it…but it had to be done.

In the end, I reduced 8 banker boxes down to 1 single plastic tub of some of the stuff that my kids might like to see some day: photos, personal letters to clients, and a few forms that we used to quote new work.

Good-bye to Kerner Tool & Die once and for all – and “hello” to the next chapter!