For the Love of Freedom!

I love being self-employed.  I love freedom.  I am free to work where, when and wearing what I want. (If I am still in my pj's it is still morning, right?)  I can take a day off without asking permission. (I never was good at asking permission.)  I can work on the beach if I want to, but I usually don't. Sand and electronics are not a great mix.  Besides, when I am at the beach I prefer to be playing, or sleeping, and not working.  I am free to act.  I am not hindered by all the many wheels of a large organization. 

The truth of being successfully self-employed is that you work a LOT, especially at the beginning of a project or start up phase of a business.  You are where the rubber meets the road.  If it needs doing, you do it, or not, and suffer the consequences.  The weight sits squarely on your shoulders.  You can muster the strength and carry on, or shrug and let it roll.  The choice is yours, and so are the ramifications of that choice.

I put in lots of hours focused on the hope of future profits.  An entrepreneur is a person of great faith.  You have to have faith in yourself, faith in your ideas, faith in your business partners, faith in your customers, faith in your methods, faith in the economy, faith in the world, and faith that your reasons for all this work are worth it.  Faith in a loving God who is on my team sees me through when my faith in all the rest waivers.  Unless you are a super hero, your faith will waiver. 

Lots of blood, sweat and tears go into creating a business to call your own.  Sometimes the profits come quickly and some times they don't.  Sometimes your ideas are good and sometimes they just don't work.  Sometimes you have to know when to call it quits and stop stacking deck chairs on the Titanic and just get in the life boat already.  Sometimes your baby is ugly.

I LOVE my life!  I LOVE FREEDOM!  In my opinion and experience, it is worth the risk, crazy hours, and all the hard work.

There are potential streams of revenue all around us.  It is easy to see the connection, and the natural progression of some of my business ventures.  Others seem to be completely divergent.  The one thing that they all share is ME.  I love to explore new ideas and I hang on and fight to keep them alive.

Here are some of my current endeavors:

HIROahu - Professional home inspections on the island of Oahu.  www.HIROahu.com

Appraiser Aide - Data entry for real estate appraisers all over the US.  www.appraiseraide.com

Essential Oils - Due to crazy rules and regulations, you will have to contact me for a private conversation about this one.

Life with Clarity - Energy healing using the SimplyHealed method. www.lifewithclarity.com

Hula Lives

My good friend Michelle invited me to start dancing in August of 2012 with Akala Dance Studio.  I have come to love hula and love my hula sisters.  Dancing clears my mind.  It soothes my soul.  It makes me happy.

We had our end of the season show on Saturday 2/22/14.  The music we danced to is still playing in my mind, like the sound track of my day.  It was awesome and sad. Michelle is moving soon, and the location where we have been practicing is closing.  I will keep dancing, but it won't be the same.  Hula makes me happy!