Day 008

 Dear dreamer,

Something finally...

Yep! Product 1 is finally ready- actually, it's a service so what is left is to push it into the market so it can find its place but I'm penniless and it requires a little penny to go but I'm not worried, I have plans for how that will be settled.

I have chosen a partner for this one but I am still considering alternatives- nobody likes last minute disappointments. As for product 2, the team is yet to be set up- more like I have been putting it off. I don't want to set up just any group of people. I had a couple of people in on the idea but I was not quite sure I could trust them professionally. Don't get me wrong- I trust them normally but professionally...I was not quite sure and I was still on schedule. I know that is indecision right there but I am still human after all...

However, I was kind of happy. Progress has that effect. Of course, I keep doubting myself every now and then but I am able to move past it every time and that's what important- consistency. Showing up even when you don't feel like it. The more you do, the more confident you feel and I definitely felt more confident to pull product 2 off and product 3 was underway (I know I just started to streamline what I had to do to increase focus but ideas has its own agenda). I need a skill set that is currently more than I possess at the moment but I love a challenge and that's how our lives should be- something worth the work every day.

As much as it is good to start from where you are, what you have, that is only to set the ball rolling. You need to get out of 'comfortable' every now and then. You don't have what you need? Get it. Learn that skill, get busy, get out and get dirty (not in the literal sense though) but doing whatever it takes is the real deal. Don't forever lie in the comfort valley. 

I was definitely happy and in good spirits today- something I can not boast of in the past few days. The blog...I was getting into the game. Writing the first 2 or 3 days would be quite easy but I was not exactly sure of other days so it had to be ingrained in me. So, it was just somewhere in my mind as- you will definitely do it- just not yet. At least, I had this one chance to live my dreams and I am not going to let it go.

Since we are on a similar topic, I might as well go ahead to say- when you want to do something and you want to get it done, engage your emotions. Emotions possess a kind of power that can not be explained. If you get into your dreams, your goals and it gets into you, nothing will be able to stop you from achieving it. If you are not emotionally involved in anything, you might as well give it up and go on to something else. Get engaged with all you are- every fibre of your being and you will keep getting up no matter how many times you fall and how challenging it may be.

Yay! Product 1 is ready (leak: it's a camp)

Expecting the pennies soon...


                    ~A Penniless Dreamer 

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