Lacking focus. I am truly in a place where there is too much going on in my life, and much of it is not my desire. I also am reading everything I come across to find the "answer" to MY life, universe and everything. They all seem like very good ideas, but they all tell me to find my passion first. That will lead the way.
Passion. Where has it gone? What was it before? What can it be now? I think I've been working so hard at my day job that I have truly lost what inspires me, makes me tick, stirs up my passion. I also have issues at home and work on my husband's company that has drained me of the energy to get fired up about anything. It's not really depression, I've had that many years ago, it's realy just massive frustration, and lack of patience. All of this stress really does block my connection to my passion.
I listened to a teleconference the other night that was different than some of the other business teleconferences that I listen to. It was called "THE ONE SIMPLE PRACTICE, THE ONE SEMINAR, AND THE FIVE BOOKS THAT CHANGED MY LIFE - Part One" by Marc Allen http://www.marcallen.com .
It started out with a meditation that took me from a stressed week at work, to a place of being open to new ideas. It was so relaxing, and I felt completely refreshed and ready to listen. I realized that my life is so frenetic, that I just needed to be taken to a peaceful place to stop, relax, and listen.
I'm trying to see how to do more of this to help me line out my days and my direction and my focus. I have many meditation tapes, and I use my iPod and free meditation podcasts quite often. I suppose they don't work if I'm doing 5 other things at the same time while listening to them. Whew! Not exactly what they're intended for.
I plan on doing 20 minutes of meditation everyday to see how that affects me, my direction, and most importantly my passion.
Post a response if you want to get a list of some of the meditation tapes and podcasts that I listen to.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Reading other Blogs for Inspiration
I watch and read quite a few other blogs for personal development and inspiration and fun. Many different topics cross my path every day, probably because I'm always doing research, and I have a short attention span, so I consume many different sources to keep my mind happy.
I use http://www.netvibes.com to keep all of my RSS feed blogs in one place. I can also get news and a calendar and have my own ToDo checklist. It really helps me quickly review the blog entries that I want to read from my favorite authors. I add these various blogs and websites to the bottom of my blog below if you want to have fun with your own research.
One that I started reading lately is Paul Piotrowski's Inspired Money Maker at http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com . He wrote a good one yesterday about fears in success.
I try to read something every day to help myself learn more about my journey and to get new ideas. I'm also working very hard on trying to refine my attempts at doing online businesses in my spare time. I have bought about 10 different domains all with different ideas to begin. Because I work on this after my regular job, I try to make baby steps on getting them going. Right now I'm trying to work on the plan for each one. Everything I read says I must have a plan to be successful with them. Only one recommends, just go with it and start - too much planning keeps you at the gate. I like the second one of course. I just need to make up my mind on what the heck I'm doing. One planning book says to write down all the things you like, and all the things you are good at. That varies so greatly - everything from travel, to architecture, to yoga, to Disney, and many more.
If you are like me in the same dichotomy of information telling you both sides of the story and not knowing which is correct, then you'll sympathize. I'm trying different things to see what works for me personally.
The main thing is that I'm enjoying the journey, and I know in the end that I will have success.
At least I have hope that there will be.
I use http://www.netvibes.com to keep all of my RSS feed blogs in one place. I can also get news and a calendar and have my own ToDo checklist. It really helps me quickly review the blog entries that I want to read from my favorite authors. I add these various blogs and websites to the bottom of my blog below if you want to have fun with your own research.
One that I started reading lately is Paul Piotrowski's Inspired Money Maker at http://www.inspiredmoneymaker.com . He wrote a good one yesterday about fears in success.
I try to read something every day to help myself learn more about my journey and to get new ideas. I'm also working very hard on trying to refine my attempts at doing online businesses in my spare time. I have bought about 10 different domains all with different ideas to begin. Because I work on this after my regular job, I try to make baby steps on getting them going. Right now I'm trying to work on the plan for each one. Everything I read says I must have a plan to be successful with them. Only one recommends, just go with it and start - too much planning keeps you at the gate. I like the second one of course. I just need to make up my mind on what the heck I'm doing. One planning book says to write down all the things you like, and all the things you are good at. That varies so greatly - everything from travel, to architecture, to yoga, to Disney, and many more.
If you are like me in the same dichotomy of information telling you both sides of the story and not knowing which is correct, then you'll sympathize. I'm trying different things to see what works for me personally.
The main thing is that I'm enjoying the journey, and I know in the end that I will have success.
At least I have hope that there will be.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
The Journey of Finding Money Begins
Actually my journey started when I got laid off in 2001 from my job in the computer industry for 12 years. I was devastated at the time and had lost my identity, my passion, my confidence, and my purpose. My company was bought out, but I had survived so many layoffs and re-orgs at that company that I thought I was fine. Admittedly, now that I have taken time to assess and grow and heal, I realized that it wouldn't have mattered because I was a redundant resource and probably hit the upper end of my pay scale.
I've been on a search ever since to find my own security. I have spent many hours and months doing research of finding the right thing to do for pay, and for my passion, but I supposed I had a lot to learn in many areas about myself.
I've done just about everything you can think of to make it "work". I've ran a web store that sold skin care. I bought a business that I thought was an automatic salary for me (don't ever buy an existing business - more on that later). It was like "buying a job" for myself, but I didn't realize the amount of huge overhead costs that I would encounter just to make the profits I needed for a salary. I went into business with my husband - a difficult undertaking even if you do get along like we do. Then I went to work for a small company doing sales at first and currently manage the training department.
I'm still looking. Yes, I bring home a decent paycheck now, but I have loads of debt and still need my own sense of security. Dan Miller said in one of his podcasts recently that if you work for someone else, you have one client that can fire you at any moment. If you have many clients, it would take all of them to fire you at once. So if you are relying on the clients for your pay, then it's a much better situation to run your own business or consulting company.
It makes sense, but that is very easily said. How to start the journey of deciding what? where? when? who? and Why? to start your own business.
My goal is to find a part time way to make enough money to cover my mortgage payment which is about 40% of my monthly bring home pay. I want a way to ease my mind that my first basic need will be covered.
I'm going to write about my different experiences with this journey and maybe get some feed back on what I'm missing. At least share some experiences with others on the same path and see what we come up with.
Be sure to post some comments, or email me and ask questions that we can dive into together.
General Douglas MacArthur said, "Security is your ability to produce".
I've been on a search ever since to find my own security. I have spent many hours and months doing research of finding the right thing to do for pay, and for my passion, but I supposed I had a lot to learn in many areas about myself.
I've done just about everything you can think of to make it "work". I've ran a web store that sold skin care. I bought a business that I thought was an automatic salary for me (don't ever buy an existing business - more on that later). It was like "buying a job" for myself, but I didn't realize the amount of huge overhead costs that I would encounter just to make the profits I needed for a salary. I went into business with my husband - a difficult undertaking even if you do get along like we do. Then I went to work for a small company doing sales at first and currently manage the training department.
I'm still looking. Yes, I bring home a decent paycheck now, but I have loads of debt and still need my own sense of security. Dan Miller said in one of his podcasts recently that if you work for someone else, you have one client that can fire you at any moment. If you have many clients, it would take all of them to fire you at once. So if you are relying on the clients for your pay, then it's a much better situation to run your own business or consulting company.
It makes sense, but that is very easily said. How to start the journey of deciding what? where? when? who? and Why? to start your own business.
My goal is to find a part time way to make enough money to cover my mortgage payment which is about 40% of my monthly bring home pay. I want a way to ease my mind that my first basic need will be covered.
I'm going to write about my different experiences with this journey and maybe get some feed back on what I'm missing. At least share some experiences with others on the same path and see what we come up with.
Be sure to post some comments, or email me and ask questions that we can dive into together.
General Douglas MacArthur said, "Security is your ability to produce".
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