You are about to learn some things you didn’t know about me plus…
1) Some funny and interesting corrections from the News-Press article I was in
2) How I’m earning a living and
3) An awesome action shot I took of somebody doing a CRAZY kiteboard jump.
There were some comments on the News-Press article that I appreciate being brought up but wanted to correct real quick.
It says that Andrea (the awesome woman that I’ve been with for the last five years) is preparing to become a yoga instructor. I guess this statement understandably led a reader to make the assumption that she is unemployed and does nothing but “prepare to be a yoga teacher†when that is very far from the truth…
The reality is she works full time as a real estate paralegal and already is a yoga instructor – she teaches 2-3 classes of yoga per week and even finds the time to build and run her own web site. She works harder than 99% of people that I know.
And as for me, thankfully, nobody (including Andrea) has had to help me financially. You will find that out for yourself later as I share some of my online business adventures.
You should know that I am very grateful to be able to do what I’m doing, but I won’t let you believe that it was EASY for me to do it. It wasn’t, it still isn’t, and it has required for me to risk a lot while making some decisions that just seemed plain stupid at the time.
But I know that the long term pay off is worth it and I owe my last 15 months of being able to build my own small business full time to…
- Saving money while I was working full time because I knew I wanted to do this
- Getting rid of and being happy with way less stuff since 2007 (we haven’t been perfect, but hey)
- No more car payments since 2008 (yes we’ve been to the mechanic more than I wish, but it’s still made a huge difference… I think about going completely car-less a lot)
- Being able to read inspiring stories and interacting with people who are making a living online
It was September of 2009 when I left my job with $7,542 in the bank. I saved $314 per paycheck for a year. I was a man on a mission. The day I left my job was scary yet exciting because I knew what I wanted to do.
