Babies seem an unavoidable topic lately. All of my friends are doing it. We want to. It's scary, but not in a bad way. Uncertainty is just a part of life, as evidenced by the fact that nothing ever works out quite like you planned. Usually it works better, to be honest.
Talking with Mike tonight after the podcast, that's certainly evident. He and Artemisa just had their second daughter, while he's trying to get out of his job because it just isn't important to him. I've certainly been there.
We shared experiences of poorly run businesses, and the addiction that keeps us working at them longer than we should (really fat pay checks). People like us have ideas constantly, but when we're stuck in a soul-crushing gig, the ideas just get squished.
Oh right, I don't have said gig right now! He made the point that I'm in a pretty good position to pretty much try anything I can think of, and indeed he's right. He pointed out that I didn't even waste time jumping into something, like this book project. I guess for all of the worrying I do about my own ability or initiative, I overlook my own sense of forward motion.
It all ends up coming back to money, and living in a state of fear that you're not going to have enough of it is no way to go. Right now, at the very least, my little projects and Web sites will cover my mortgage, which is one hell of a safety net. I want a big cushion, yes, and I'm not sure how to achieve that, but it looks like I'll have a few months to start trying stuff whether I like it or not.
I'm really excited about everything in front of me. The book is going to be a crazy sprint, but I feel like I can cross the finish. There are no fewer than four Web site ideas I have, two are easy to build, two are not. The point is just to execute and iterate. With any luck, at this time next year, I could be a stay-at-home dad.
No matter what happens, I need to rise above all of the bullshit and mediocrity in the world today.
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