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I never thought I’d be an entrepreneur. My goal was to quit working when I built up enough money to sustain my family for the rest of our lives. How the hell did I convince myself that starting a business would be a good idea? It’s the old argument of the Easy Road vs. the Hard Road, although the terms have now changed meaning slightly.
Early retirement was getting closer by the day and I started dreading it – it’s not the kind of reaction you’d expect from someone who has been writing about saving money for the past year and a half.
But my goals changed when I realized that I don’t want to not work, I just don’t want to work for someone else. I don’t want to help build another person’s dream. I want something of my own that I built from the ground up. From the Articles of Organization to the first sale — I wanted it to be 100% because of the decisions that I made.
In a way it sounds vain, but I think that it’s more than that. Human beings have the unique ability to create goals. We’re built with a driving force inside our hearts and minds that push up toward success. Sometimes life gets in the way and you get bogged down by the small stuff. Other times, life makes the decisions and you end up doing what’s best in the moment rather than what’s best for the long term.
Life was getting to that point within our household. Things were nuts. We had just had our third child, my wife told me that she decided that she’s going to leave her full time job in September, and the little things were starting to take over the majority of our time. We weren’t the Moneyseeds anymore. We were just employees by day, diaper changers by night, and an added stress of “what-the-fuck-are-we-going-to-do-when-we-only-have-one-income” started to set in.
Then, over a cup of great coffee, it hit me. It was a tiny idea, and it just seemed to resonate. It started to slowly takeover our waking conscious and subconscious thoughts, and kept us up in bed at night. We were going to start a business.
I’m not going to go into detail about what our plan is. Instead, I’ll talk about how a small idea turned into a huge idea, how the intensely bureaucratic process of organizing a business works, how a bring-you-back-to-earth reality check can change everything, and some of the small trials and tribulations of starting a business.
If you’re not of the business mind and don’t want to learn about how the process (or my personal creative process) works, then by all means skip the next few articles. Otherwise, let’s get ready to make some money the good-old-fashion American way.
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