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Crazy, full-on and all-out. Now that I’ve gotten my financial stability out of the way, I’d like to address a little tool with massive application in my own little journey. It is in fact, a tool I’d used some time ago though had failed to purchase with the arrival of my third child requiring my full attention. It wasn’t until I read another blogger’s review of the product, that I had to drop everything and take action immediately!
…I had to drop everything and take action immediately!
The little ace-up-my-sleeve I’m referring to is Market Samurai. It came to my attention in late December when a friend of mine recommended it and I had the great pleasure of trying it out for an entire week. Suffice to say, it made market research and analysis a hundred times easier compared to my previous solution of going from one free service to another in a process that was the polar opposite of streamlined. Sure it was free but it was also time-consuming, cumbersome and unintuitive. Having Market Samurai collate all the information I required and export it easily into a workable excel document was the icing on the cake for me as I had a number of clients who requested market research and this software made the collection process a pleasure.
Of course, even after being recommended, I still wanted to make sure that there wasn’t a superior product on the shelves and have yet to find one, even to this day, that does everything Market Samurai can do. Thankfully there’s a 7-day trial available for all the nay-sayer-ers out there, which, at the time, certainly gave me the kick in the pants I needed to try it out. And now that I’m finally able to get back into the pattern of things I could think of no better way to signal my renewed pursuit of excellence than to get the tool I know will help me get there.
With this little puppy, I can begin my research into a couple other niches and ideas my wife and I had been talking about over the past few months. I’ll be able to collect data I need to make the right call on which ideas we decide to go ahead with. I’m actually kinda looking forward to doing some joint-ventures with my wife once I get a few successful ones under my belt to begin with.
So for all those looking for a tool that undoubtedly works, give Market Samurai a go TODAY!
…and let the games begin, mwahaha…
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It’s been what seems like an eternity since I last posted anything. My time has been consumed by working on my business, trying to bridge the gap between contracts, all the while endeavoring to help out as much as possible as my wife prepares to have our third little girl sometime in the next two weeks. Exciting stuff no doubt but I have a better sense of what it means to live on the edge and it’s no thrill seeking rush of adrenaline, I can tell you right now!
The problem with “living on the edge” is people fail to scream into your ear, the hardships you’ll encounter, rejections you’ll endure and inevitable failures that will come from jumping in the deep end with the expectation that you’ll be able to sell yourself to success. I say “scream” because I do recall hearing about handling rejection and staying positive sometime between thinking about the traffic and working out which bill to pay off first.
I had that terrible problem of having too much month at the end of the money, if you know what I mean.
What exsaserbated the situation was the fact that work was intermittent and lent itself to rhythms of all-out work to no work at all. Thanks to a friend, I was given a reprieve in the form of a small film company, working as their 3D Animator on a part-time basis. The play-makers supported my desire to continue working on my business and thus far, have been extremely accommodating.
This helped to offset my costs (and stress) slightly letting me exchange time for dollars while I do some much needed evaluation.
The conclusion of which was as follows:
1. I’ve let my procrastination steadily get the better of me over the last 4 months, cutting into my personal and family time (tsk-tsk).
2. I’ve failed to maintain a balance of work and personal time.
3. Though I’ve continued to get work here and there, I haven’t been half as proactive as I know I could be (too busy being busy).
4. I’ve let my procrastination steadily get the better of me over the last 4 months, cutting into my personal and family time (tsk-tsk).
Note: I know I’ve mentioned #4 in the first point but it’s just that important! And given that misery loves company, I have only ALL OF YOU to blame for subconsciously attracting me to your procrastinating ways!!
…bah, who am I kidding. I know that I did everything I possibly could to end up in this predicament and by knowing this, at the very least, I can begin walking up the mountain as opposed to falling further into the valley beside it.
…by knowing this, at the very least, I can begin walking up the mountain as opposed to falling further into the valley beside it.
So my first port of call was to look at a list I’d written a month ago that had everything I needed to do (the most important things) in order to move forward. The shameful thing was that I’d still not completed all but one of these 15 tasks.
The writing was truly on the wall.
I decided to tackle the one I’d been putting off the longest (a truly cringing experience given what it had cost my financially to avoid this task) and though I’d like to say I’ve done it, I must honestly admit that I will be retiring to bed so that I may be ready for tomorrow. I will, however, finish it tomorrow given that I’ve seen how simple it really was to get the ball rolling. Hopefully over time, my bad habit of putting today things off till tomorrow, will change into a good discipline. I just have to do better each day, than the last.
With that, I leave a quote by Jim Rohn, for all who are in a similar situation as I. I follow that with a simple challenge to strive to be on the other side of the scale, to make success as easy to follow as Jim says it is.
“failure is nothing more than a few errors in judgment repeated every day. Success is easy to follow: It’s a few simple disciplines practiced every day.”
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When you consider all the great innovations of the world today, “inconvenience” isn’t usually a word you’d find paired with any of them (hopefully anyway)!
All the time-saving, space-minimizing and waste(and waist)-reducing advances, have seemed fantastic at first glance but when you look deeper, the truth is a sad contradiction I’ll touch on later…
This, of course, brings me to the topic of this post, convenience. You wouldn’t think convenience would be such an inconvenience but let’s examine the facts. More families eat TV while watching dinner on a daily basis than ever before (did you catch that one..?). More people are eating dinner in front of their computers too.
Today, it’s also easier than ever before to search for next to anything on the internet in a matter of minutes, back-to-back, gradually stretching those minutes into hours at a time. Studies have also shown that exposure to these short cyber-interactions have led to the remapping of the mind and the way it functions when using the internet.
People now look for the latest “vibrating” contraption (irony intended) to burn off the fat their too lazy to work off in a daily walk.
Family time rarely excludes the family pet, cable.
In a time where we’re all dying from bacteria on our corn-fed fast-food patties, sugar in our blood stream, UV-rays in our sunlight and potatoes on our couches, how convenient have any of our technological advances been?
The problem most of us have is thinking “If it’s convenient, it’s got to make my life easier, which should automatically equate to me being happier”. This is simply not always going to be true.
Sure, microwave popcorn is convenient today but how many of these daily conveniences do you think it’ll take before your body goes on strike, forcing you to take “industrial action” on your ass (literally) in order to “maintain operations”. The same can be said with positioning the TV in sight of the dining room table. Sure it’s cool to watch the news at dinner time but what if it comes at the cost of building a relationship with your siblings, spouse or children?
The way I see it, convenience is long-term and if an innovation has negative effects or even lacks longevity, special care should be taken to determine it’s cost on your relationship with others and yourself.
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Sometimes, the best choice is the most obvious choice and I couldn’t believe I’d ignored a niche I was certain I could succeed in after I answered five life-changing questions. I’ll explain what these are at the end of this post.
I love the saying “When the student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear.” To say I’ve been eager to find a teacher since I first started my 80-Day Journey is an understatement but despite lacking the confidence to secure one of the greats I powered through and ended up meeting three offline mentors who set me on the right track.
When the student is ready to learn, the teacher will appear.
At the end of my 80-Day Journey I was short a million or so but had established a small Design Firm specializing in Web Design and Animation.
Since that time, I’ve gone through the motions of learning how the game of sales is played and what techniques a guy like myself needs to implement in order to compete in a market where a company’s competitor is just as likely to be bankruptcy than another company. Getting into the rhythm of things has been difficult for me at times but I can say with a straight face that my results have steadily improved when compared over the last two months.
I’ve decided to get a couple sales and motivation posters designed so that I can hang them on the wall in front of my desk. At the moment, I’ve got my sales call script and response prompts printed off for easy reference when making calls to potential customers. I’ve yet to get comfortable with these calls and I’m sure it shows but I know that the only way to power through it all is to do it again and again and again.
Now, at the start I mentioned that there were five important questions I needed to answer affirmatively to in order to have a hig chance of success. I have to credit Sterling and Jay at Internet Business Mastery for sharing these simple questions with everyone in their 76th podcast and as promised, I’ve listed them below.
Are you passionate about the niche?
The five questions I asked about my niche were:
- Are you passionate about the niche?
- Does the market have either an urgent pain or a rational passion?
- Is the market proactively searching for a solution?
- Are you a member of the market or are you at least in touch with the target market on a regular basis?
- Does the market have income to buy your solution?
After answering ‘Yes’ to all the questions, I was soaring because I couldn’t believe how blatantly obvious the solution was.
Just to break it down, I’ve been working in the 3D Animation industry both in China and New Zealand, for the last four years. Though brief is presented me with the unique opportunity to work on previz and game design projects in Shanghai before securing a lecturing position at one of the largest schools in the Asia Pacific area. This has led to several offers of employement from two of the largest training establishments in New Zealand given that I have experience in developing and teaching course material focused on Computer Animation.
Given this information, I now know what type of business I next wish to set up, even before I’ve done deep research into keyword terms, competition, traffic volume, LSI, content creation and so forth.
Hidden in plain sight!
Now, given my newfound zest for research and armed with the book of notes I’ve been taking over the last week of late nights, I’m looking forward to diving in to start doing further market research.
One other thing I’m really weak on is follow-through so I’ll be doing some major thinking with this blog too because there are so many things I’ve failed to implement that I can probably pass on to my developer now that he’s up to speed with the WordPress platform.
Again, if you guys have any suggestions on how I could change up my sales game and even my blog, I’m all ears. I really appreciate the input as listening to others is pivotal when it comes to working on one’s Self Development and Personal Success!
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I’m not a stranger to the Online World, nor the Digital Media Industry so to say I was shocked is a huge understatement.
My Web Design and Animation Firm, Roarender, not one month shy of operating, had finally finished it’s first website with it’s first client. A time to celebrate no doubt, especially after the rule of three had well and truly dragged what should’ve been a simple two-week process out to a prolonged four-week process.
On completion, I got the contact details of the Web Hosting company and went about calling and forwarding on the finished website to be uploaded. After a week of follow-ups and follow-follow-ups, I was elated to get a call from the owner of the company regarding the redesign I was trying to get live. Elation was quickly replaced by awkwardness, bewilderment and finally, outrage.
Let me tell you how it played out..
I answer a call from Mr. H and state how happy I am to finally be speaking with him. He responds by saying “Did you put your company down as designing the website?” I confirm that I did and that I’d like to arrange the launch of the redesigned website. Mr. H then states that I have no right to take his company’s design and claim credit for it because in fact, I was using his design and simply maintaining it. Confused much?
…he then states that I have no right to take his company’s design and claim credit for it…Confused much?!
At this point, I proceeded to explain how every change I’d made was of my own design, from the header, to the additional pages and minimalist style but irrespective of that, he proceeded to grill me on the length of time I’d been in the industry and how unethical it was for me use his design as a template for any additional work I did to the website. I was completely gobsmacked. Not only, was the ownership of my work being called into disrepute but I felt as if an attack on my person and competency was being made. Well I never!
Fortunately (for him), my Jim Rohn tapes kicked into play in the back of my mind and amid the swirling emotions and scathing remarks I was itching to unleash, I took this more than frustrating situation and contemplated on how fascinating it was. Never being one to jump at anyone who wasn’t family, I calmly stated that I was completely confused by what he was saying and wanted to establish the facts in the matter.
And this is where things get interesting…
After restating (for what felt like the hundredth time) that I’d created a new design which I’d sent to him, I pointed out that other than some copy which had been on the old website, every single element was different. I rattled through comparisons by posing questions like “And you know how my design has such and such…” and “Can you see how my such and such is different because….”
After a couple of these, I got curious and frankly asked him -
“Have you actually looked at the design I’ve done for the client?”
His response -
“Well, no, my staff member phoned me up to say it was exactly the same as ours!” Gotcha!
I then asked “So, this entire time you’ve been accusing me of stealing your design, not knowing how to be professional in this industry while talking about how the client is so difficult and you want him to find another host, this whole time, you’ve never even looked at the design I sent you?!”
“So, this entire time you’ve been accusing me of stealing your design…this whole time, you’ve never even looked at the design I sent you?!”
Mr. H responded “…look, I’m just going off what my guy’s told me, which is, you’ve put your name at the bottom of our desi-”
“Sorry to interupt, but you need to talk to your guy again because he is wrong!” I interrupted. “It seems this entire matter is based on your presumption that I’ve ripped you off and even that, is based on here say from your worker. You need to check the file I sent you yourself and hey, if it turns out, I’ve failed to include a template than I’ll stand accountable but if it’s someone from your party, I hope you would do the same, so why don’t we leave it at that?”
After a moment he replied “Look, I think we got off on the wrong foot (he got off on the wrong foot). I’ll give my guy a call back and see if I can’t get to the bottom of this.”
I politely responded, “Thank you for that Mr. H. I look forward to hearing back from you.” End call.
Now, the crazy thing was that although I came across as polite and somewhat in control, my heart was beating a hundred times a second from the rush of the confrontation. I walked out thinking, “Woah, and this was just my 1st client!”
Several days later, after again hearing no response, I went out to the company to pay the host handling fee for uploading the site and met Mr. H, eager to welcome me , offer a chair and apologize (I believe sincerely) for the mix-up. Over the course of our discussion, I discovered he needed a guy to come in and reinstall his windows server so he could get his internal Content Management System up and running again. He asked if I could help him and I’m currently in talks to come up with what could become a long-term solution, and thus, business relationship with his company. Win-Win.
I’ve personally warmed up to far too many stories of people turning the proverbial lemon into lemonade…
Some might say, “Screw him, it’d serve him right!” but I’ve personally warmed up to far too many stories of people turning the proverbial lemon into lemonade as a result of being polite, professional and sincerely endeavoring to give the best service possible. These are stories of legend that have served a great many successful salesmen and saleswomen and it’s my hope that I, the owner of a 1-month-old Web Design and Animation Firm, will have one such tale to call my own.
The moral from this is that I was so happy to know that I’d turned a “frustrating” situation into a “fascinating” situation which was quickly turning into a “financially rewarding” opportunity at that. Thank you Jim Rohn…of course, hearing him apologize in front of all his staff was sweet music to the ears!
…of course, hearing him apologize in front of all his staff was sweet music to the ears!
If anyone else has similar stories of turning frowns upside down, share away. Jim Rohn says that if we share a story with one person, they hear it once but we hear it twice which means you have the chance to learn from the message once more.
Let’s share our stories with as many people as possible because it is sure to help us in our own Personal Success and Professional Success, as my experience will show.
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Ever have the feeling that you were being pulled this way and that by every man and his dog? Even more so when it came to keeping money in your pocket with the intent to have it later work for you?
Well last week was a doozy!
Not only did I receive the joy of shaking hands with forgotten bills but I also had my home appliances conspire to thwart any of my attempts to put aside 10% of my earnings for investment. As I continued to diligently put aside the money as soon as it entered my account, I drew a certain satisfaction from seeing it gradually increase with each job I finished. I’d have to say it was almost down-right fun to see the numbers go oddly in the opposite direction they were normally accustomed to!
But that wasn’t the best of it.
Last week, despite receiving several turn-downs, I prospected several clients very keen to have their websites redesigned. I also finished up with my very first client, who offered some very welcome praise. I won’t sugar-coat it now, I did step as far back from prospecting as I possibly could which will undoubtedly have a consequence 2 weeks down the line.
But never one to be a sourpuss, I also launched the new design for my web design company website. It was great to finally have somewhere I could begin showcasing all my client work. Fortunately, the developer I have working with me is quick smart and was able to develop a custom app in little less than 30 hours to provide a dynamic tool for adding new clients to our portfolio.
The first month had come and gone and suffice to say, I have soooo much to learn about running, managing and developing a small business. From creating a sales process to improving administration, there’s a lot I don’t know and it feels like the last month has been a roller coaster ride in a hail storm without a helmet. Got some hard welts when it came to balancing deadlines and delegating work loads, as well as following up on corrections, revisions and appointments. In it though, I’ve had a number of successes that have seen me begin to increase my weekly earnings somewhat over the last month.
One thing I’ve learned is to pull back from the rush of complete immersion, in exchange for a lighter more measured and timely introduction to the many facets of running a small business. I want to make this a success so it’s time I got serious.
…Especially with my bank account going up for a change! 
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What kind of man makes to conquer a mountain only to wind up lying in the valley at it’s foot?
There are so many directions to approach such a question though I’ll take the least embarrassing one…
…truth be told, it’s taken me some time to realise the irony of my situation. That situation is that I’ve enjoyed a view of the stars, not because I stood among them but because I stared up from the flat of my back.
To be honest with you, everything about my current situation just screams Alanis Morissette.
<cue music>
“It’s like planning to become a millionaire, only to end up worse for wear..”
(I know, could have worked more on the rhyming part…)
…but now that I’m past those first 5 lines of self-pity, I can get to sharing.
The first thing I wanted to share is that the last month has been spent working on Roarender, my digital design company. This includes door knocking, “warm calling”, bringing on skilled talent to carry out the work and realising, “Crap, I have less money now then I had before I started the 80-Day Challenge!” I then followed this up with a classic Tim-Allen-quizzical-grunt (not really but you get the idea).
For a second, I floated the idea that this is how all great founders of successful design firms and studios feel and live. It mostly came to me from an email exchange between Tim Miller, founder of Blur Studio, and a Mr. DiMauro. A summary of the exchange can be found here, quite colorful really though a mere shadow of the complete conversation.
In it, Tim wrote something to the effect of taking pride in being paid less than his staff members. Of course than I snapped out of it and realised Roarender isn’t Blur Studio and I was still a ways off becoming Tim Miller.
The challenge is that in order to succeed at Checkity, my “online venture”, I require the capital and time to build as well as support it through the initial stages. This is where my design firm is supposed to have come in. By running a successful and profitable company, I would then have the “much needed coin” to invest in the development of my website while ensuring my family stays fed.
Problem is, setting up a company is one thing, setting up sales is a completely different can of worms. Well, a more honest statement would be that the real problem is my ability to get appointments with prospects.
This has been true over the last 3 weeks where I decided to focus wholeheartedly on selling “the benefits” my services could offer. I believe it was a culmination of a weak sales process, undisciplined work ethic and poor organisation skills which reaped the poor results I rightly deserved. I also failed to track and evaluate my performance, a fatal flaw in any process.
This resulted in me needing to revisit my approach. Begrudgingly, with creditors at the door, I’ve subsequently dialed back my time and effort in exchange for a contract that provides a steady stream of income. It is unfortunate, in light of my efforts (or more accurately, desire) , that I should step away from the plate as opposed to assess, adjust and ascend as the fairy tales would lead us to believe. But this is a necessary step as I develop better discipline and an ability to manage time and funds more effectively.
The light at the end of the tunnel is a book I’ve been longing to read since I first began my 80-Day Challenge, The Richest Man in Babylon. Given that my time is scarce at the moment, I took advantage of downloading the Audiobook and it was exactly the jump-start I needed to end my self-wallowing and begin making a change in how I was handling my cash flow.
Now, for those unfamiliar with The Richest Man in Babylon, it is a collection of parables which teach important principles of managing your finances and investing wisely. These parables are set in the times of Babylon, a city of arguable greatness.
The Richest Man in Bablyon has 7 basic principles:
1) Start thy purse to fattening – save/invest
2) Control thy expenditures – watch out for self serving brokers
3) Make thy gold mutiply – use powerful investments
4) Guard thy treasures from loss – watch out for brokers with
their hot tips.
5) Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment – rental properties, your own home—but stay within your means.
6) Insure a future income – do work that you love to do. Become excellent at it.
7) Increase thy ability to earn – education never stops. Keep reading good books like this one, The Millionaire Next Door, Rich Dad Poor Dad and so on.
Now, I’ve wanted to check this book out since I first heard the Rhino, Jerry Clark mention it in a list of books to invest in. Suffice to say, I’m listening to it second time around in less than 5 days. I’ll also listen to it repetitively in days to come as it was just what I needed to hear.
One truth that hit home for me was how men of means could so easily allow their desires to exceed their capacity to satisfy, the result, a life no better off than that of a slave.
Another truth was the requirement to make your money a slave to work towards your own ends. Of course, giving away your slaves, without forethought, would mean I’d need to buy new slaves (earn more money) in order to have them, then, work for me. The kicker is that once I had these slaves, my paramount focus was to see those slaves have children (accrue through wise investment) that too, would work for me. The purpose is to grow an army of earnings that would ensure my needs, my wants and my desires were the stead for which I straddled and not the other way around (which has been the case until now).
So yesterday, I received my first earnings and without a second thought, I placed 10% in an account set aside for me. This amount would not go to anyone. Now, the book also promotes adjusting your living expenses to live on 70% of your earnings so that the remainder may be split evenly between Investment and Tithing so I have work to do tonight in order to compensate.
I dare say it is a step that I’ve long been avoiding.
So given that I tend to put off today’s work tomorrow, I’m looking forward to seeing what effect these small changes make in my own Self Development and Personal Success.
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Well, today’s post was a tricky one. Didn’t know what to call it but I knew I had to be a square shooter about it so here goes.
I’m not a millionaire. The fact that I’m not posting screenshots of my bank account balance alludes to the reality that I don’t have a million dollars sitting in the bank on Monday 22nd February, 2010. Sad but true. The challenges of balancing stuff on the side while taking care of a family proved too great to overcome. At times, my own inability to focus correctly and make harder and smarter decisions when it mattered most, surely cost me more than I gained so it’s important that I take stock of what I have and don’t have as a result of my action:
The 80-Day Promises:
- Become a Millionaire in 80 Days
- Overcome Procrastination
- Become More Focused and Efficient
The 80-Day Result
- Am Not a Millionaire though I’ve learned a great deal about the type of person you must be in order to become a Millionaire. I’ve learned that without discipline, you’ll never succeed at accomplishing anything. This links to the disease of procrastination. I also learned though that through diligence and perseverance, even I can succeed.
- Have doubled productivity by working on my own personal development, though I still tend to get bogged down by the big idea and fail to break things down into bite-sized chunks. As a result, I finally began doing some selling for my own company and have continued to allocate a certain amount of time, per week, to selling.
- Accomplished more in the last 2 months than I did in the previous 18. This includes learning more about being successful in the home and the work place, communicating better with others and understanding the fundamentals of running a successful business. I put this into practice with my own business and have learned about several tools available to the young entrepreneur i.e. Sales Closes, Marketing Strategy, Virtual Services, Semi-Automated Business Systems and Success Training through speakers such as Jim Rohn and Zig Ziglar.
Given these small successes in the face of undeniable failure to become a millionaire, the only sane decision at this point is to try again.
And again.
Until I accomplish becoming a millionaire.
…something about this next 80 Days though, I definitely think this is going to be the 80 Days that change my life…again that is…but more of course…well, you get what I mean!
So as I charge my glass with unfiltered tap water and raise it to my computer monitor, I farewell the experiences of the past and herald in the adventures of the future. Please if you would charge your glasses in like, and repeat after me, “We will not fail!”
So dramatic!
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Pretty impressive title if I do say so myself, but it’s all true. Tonight my wife and I sat down to plan our week and upcoming events. This included my plan to fly out to either the Ryan Lee Continuity Summit in New York on the first weekend of March or Bill Phillips Transformation Conference in Dallas on the second. This, of course, hinges on my being able to meet my sales target for this month so I was determined to lay it all out on the table to ensure I wasn’t missing anything.
Though I’m still fairly nervous about the week, I’m also really excited to be starting off the way I have; targeting small to medium companies who stand to benefit from having an online presence that stands above others within the industry. With the steps I’m taking to get another designer on board, I’m optimistic about getting this right and finding partners who will gain a notable advantage over their competitors as a result of having my help.
With that in mind, it’s time I hit the bed so that I can stick to the plan I wrote out tonight. Ciao all and wish me luck!
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For those who read yesterdays entry, you’ll know which marathons I’m referring to and yes, they are not for the faint hearted! : )
Today was spent playing with the kids after my awesome wife let me have a sleep-in till 11AM. Pretty cool right?!
Before the day was out, my wife and I also arranged to have a Mediterranean dinner at 10.30PM. This may seem like a late meal to some but taking into account how long it took for us to get our little ones settled in at my parents place before we left, it ended up being perfect timing.
After we’d finished dinner at a little Turkish restaurant in town I told my wife that it would be awesome to be able to take my entire family around the world for a 12 month trip. She remarked that it would cost a lot of money and I agreed. My aim is to be wise and wealthy enough to save up for such a trip while my parents are still young and mobile (hope my dad doesn’t read this entry). I started imagining all the places we’d visit, the meals we’d eat, the toilets where we’d regret what we’d eaten and the 12 months of fighting and arguing with my siblings…I may have to work on the idea a little longer… J
But hey, maybe you guys don’t want to do something as crazy as a year-long trip around the world. Maybe you’d like to buy Harley Davidson Motorcycles for you and your spouse or enjoy all the holiday locations in your own country for three or four months. Whatever it is, and so long as it’s legal and doesn’t harm anyone else in the process, I think there’s something to be said for dreaming up fantastical goals we can all pursue.
I personally don’t want to be the shoulda-coulda-woulda guy and I’m sure you don’t want to be either so let’s get on with planning for the impossible, taking it down to improbable until it finally becomes possible.
