May First, and I'm still slamming on my course here. I'm adding about 20 hours of video how-tos, and a ton of extras to the course as well now. I want it to be an incredible resource for small business owners.
It's funny: I've been listening to and reading a lot of books about authors as they "talk shop" and a lot of them talk about "having a book inside of them" and "needing to get it out" This part of my work feels like that. It's like a sickness: I have this course, and this business model inside of me, and I won't feel better until it's out of me, and working. I want this to work.
Meditation continues. I'm trying more advanced techniques like visualization, and it's really great to be able to force your brain to focus specifically on something while you're working. It does really pour over to real life. I would recommend anyone to give Headspace a try and get through the first 30 days. It will change the way you work and live.
Stanley is excited to move in here, and to go to college. He's coming up more weekends than not, now, really just to chill out. It's good for all of us, as his presence seems to make us all slow down a little bit, even Sophia. These weekends have been extremely mellow, which has been needed. Stef and I have both been working day in and day out on our businesses: Stef her Simple Spreadsheet business for multi-level marketers, and her bookkeeping business, me on my course, and building my brand. I'm still working for the time being as well, but requests for my services have come in on on a weekly basis now, so I'm fairly sure that even if I got fired tomorrow I could almost immediately replace my income with client work while I finished the course. It is a nice feeling.
I am starting to picture the course in its entirety in my mind, and I can see it being an incredible resource for people. I'm having Stef do each day with me, and I'm recording it, which I think adds a shit ton of value, as she has literally no experience in online marketing. Plus, it gives us a space of time to work on her business as well, and market it. She's getting leads, and also clients. She's excited. It'll be a lot of work.
We're not afraid of hard work, but I think after this we really need to slow down for a time. We've been ruthlessly building our careers/business for years now...really nonstop since the year before Sophia was born, and she's 4 now. We are exhausted and ready for our first Mini-retirement. I think we're going to do an RV trip around the four corners of north America. That's what I want to do. I think we may just...be for a few months at home, and then decide from there, though. However, it think it'll be hard to not work if we're just at home. I don't really know. I just want to focus on building our remote work lifestyles for now... we're closer than we ever have been.
Much work to be done, but we'll get there.
