This is getting real...

Alright, this is starting to get really real.  This time tomorrow, I might just have an exit plan from my day job.  I’m kind of freaking out, but mostly just excited for what’s to come.

I’ve had the dream of owning my own business for many years now.  But up until recently, I haven’t seen a path to be able to do so without putting my family’s financial future completely at risk.  I have often said that if I was a bachelor, I would have started my own business years ago. Why not? What do you have to lose? It’s a different story when you have seven mouths to feed and a 30 year mortgage.  

Sometimes when you go through intense adversity and you don’t possibly see a positive outcome, something that you’ve been thinking about and hoping for suddenly appears.  When it does, you have to take it. Crazy or not crazy, I’m doing it!

So, I’m starting my own business.  There are four main things that I am going to focus on.

1. I am currently trying to work things out with my current employer so they can be my first client.  

2. I am starting a marketing business that focuses on retaining customers.  Along with this, I will be making and selling various corporate gifts.

3. I am developing a new ukulele and guitar pick called Mute Picks and I am about a month away from launching that product.

4. I am writing this blog.

So, my biggest struggle right now is time.  I just need more hours in the day to be able to focus on starting and growing the business.  But the way things are looking, about four months from now I am going to start having a lot more time to work on all this.  Until then, I’ll just keep juggling like I always do.