Life Is Awesome

Sometimes I sit down to write in this blog and have no idea what to write.  I know that most successful blogs stick to a niche, but I can’t bring myself to do that again.  I’ve already done it once in health/wellness which is the whole point for this blog.  I want to write about what I want to write about. Basically I want to write about everything I love thinking about and doing: blogging, travel, lifestyle design, creating my own business…

Oh yes, the business thing.

It’s on my goal list but now I’m working on it.  For real this time.  I’m not trying to just make money, but I trying to build something.  I’m in the middle of creating a product that I will be launching and selling next month.  I have plans for more and partners to work on them with.  It’s simultaneously exhilarating and frightening because I’m in control of the whole process and therefore responsible for its success or failure.  I’m betting on this being a success, but in the back of my mind there is always a chance of failure.

The thing about it is – you can’t let fear of failure stop you from doing what you want.

I decided I want to work for myself. So I’m trying this new approach to doing it.  I have a ton to learn about creating and launching products and even more to learn about being self employed.  For the last several months I’ve built up an income of several hundred dollars a month through blogging.  I’m not getting rich and I’m not even making a full time income.  But I’ve realized that I can do this.  With some more time and some more hard work I can make myself a full time income on my own terms.

I love how I’ve started this while I’ve been in New Zealand.  Travel and a new business endeavor?  Yeah.  Life is ridiculous and complicated and hard and awesome.

So I’m off on this new endeavor and I want to blog about it.  I’m not sure how it will end up.  I’m sure though it will be a learning experience.  I would love to read more about these kinds of things from anyone who has done it before or about the best ways to go about starting a small business.  If you have any book or blog recommendations I should be reading then let me know in the comments.

And other than that… I don’t know what to write about. ;)