Celebrating a Win, Letting Go & Moving Forward!

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I’ll warn you up front — you may want to grab a cup of coffee or a cold drink before diving in. My usual “brevity” has officially been thrown out the window, and I’m not sure where it landed… LOL.

Seriously though — do you have a to-do list? The kind that never seems to end? Maybe you check off the urgent things but keep putting off the heavy ones — the important-but-not-urgent tasks that are so easy to push aside. You tell yourself, “I’ll get to it soon.” But then life happens. New commitments pile on. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and before you know it those old to-do’s have been shoved so far down the list they’re almost forgotten — except they’re not.

Because every time you sit down to do something new, something you want to be excited about, the unfinished things creep back in. Instead of joy, you feel guilt. Instead of freedom, you feel pressure.

That was me back in January.

Some of you know parts of my story: how I got very sick with COVID, how in 2020 my wife and I had to close our businesses, how bankruptcy followed, and how depression crept in during those long months of recovery. What I haven’t talked about as much is the backlog that came with all of it — boxes and boxes of equipment, paperwork, invoices, receipts, records to digitize, equipment to dismantle, and over 85 hard drives holding more than 50 terabytes of data. Millions of files that needed sorting.

It wasn’t just clutter. It was the weight of lost dreams and unfinished business. And it sat in storage like a shadow over everything new I wanted to build.

You see, before I got sick, I had always been someone people could count on. If George said he was going to do it, you could take it to the bank. But after COVID, I simply couldn’t keep up anymore. That reality was a crushing blow.

In those early months of recovery, I gave myself permission to set the to-do list aside and focus on healing. And slowly, I began to dream again. Out of that season came Alderpen Media — the for-profit ministry my wife and I launched in May of 2021, and finally brought to life in January 2024. We knew it would be the last business we ever start. A way of giving back. A way of paying forward the blessings we’ve received.

But this past January, I realized something sobering: if I didn’t deal with that backlog now, it would only get harder to deal with later. And it was still stealing the joy of everything new I was trying to build.

So I made a decision: before I could step fully into the future, I had to face the past. Not halfway. Not later. But now.

And today, I’m happy to report — that mountain is finally behind me.

Friends, this is a major win for me. Because it’s not just about organization — it’s about release. Letting go of the past so I can step into the future.

This week, I’ll be recording new videos again, with a goal of my next release on Monday, September 1st. My personal target? To reach monetization before January 1st. 🎯

I share all this not just to celebrate but to encourage. Maybe you’ve got your own backlog — unfinished projects, mental clutter, something you’ve been putting off because life keeps happening.

If that’s you, please hear me:

👉 You don’t have to do it all at once.

👉 Progress counts, even if it’s slow.

👉 And sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is stop running from the weight, face it, and take the first step.

Here’s to letting go, clearing the backlog, and moving forward — one box, one file, one step at a time.

Thank you again to

@Alexa Saarenoja

for creating this space. I look forward to sharing the road ahead with all of you.

— George

#TheHomeWorkDad

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