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Past year, new year

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I spent the month of December preparing for my wedding, getting married and going on my honeymoon. Not much else went on except chatting/relaxing with friends and family during the holidays. I spent some of that time reviewing what went on in my life this year:

Good:

Got married to a wonderful woman.
Bought a house (could be a bad, given the real estate market here).
Transferred to a new company location, doing away with a grueling 2-3 hour round-trip commute.
Took steps to start my own businesses, establish multiple streams of income.

Bad:

Nothing much, other than the fact that I still have a regular 9 to 5 job. I say “nothing much” because in the context of the natural disasters that occurred this past year and people facing extended unemployment, I have to say nothing at all. I really have to keep this in mind when life and work’s annoyances get to me.

Switching to the new company location let some of the air out of my motivation to do my own thing. But the motivation is still there, and I’m deciding what to do next. None of my ventures have been successful in terms of freeing me from a 9 to 5 job; I’ll have to count them as the inevitable failures on the way to success. I’ve decided that the only one I’ll continue to actively work on is my wedding favors website, which is at least profitable and requires minimal time and effort.

For the better part of last year, I’ve been exploring ways to just make money, period. For now, though, I’ve decided to explore new personal interests and seeing where they lead me. I’ll be blogging about these as they progress.

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2 Comments

David St Lawrence
5:25 am on February 4th, 2006
Eric,

You are on the right track! Just look at your accomplishments this year. None of them would have occurred without your intention to make them come true.

The fact that you have a still higher goal to accomplish should not diminish what you have been able to do already.

Keep on networking, online and off, and you will find the opportunity to transform your business activity into a 16-hour day of self-employed excitement instead of a 9-to-5 effort under someone else’s direction.

On the other hand, you may be looking for passive investments to give you a boring life of ease.

Whichever path you choose, it appears that you have made a good start on it. You seem to have made good use of every bit of advice you have been given, including mine.

Thanks for promoting my book.

David
Eric
11:55 pm on February 12th, 2006
Thanks for the encouraging words, David. Passive instruments would be great and I am also thinking about them.

Your blog has been interesting, whatever subject you write about. I was happy to hear that your move is mostly completed despite the small bumps.

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