Almost forgot to write… again!
My brain is going so many places all the time! So many things have my attention!
This morning, I spent a good little while working on tax stuff, and I made good progress. That was good. I still have a long long way to go, but I made good, solid progress.
After that, the phonetic stuff sort of took over my brain, and I started looking seriously at getting this off the ground (after what… 10 years?!?!). I created an account on freelancer.com, and I’ve got what appears to be a good candidate to do the programming for me on there, but I’m also reaching out to some others as well to see what options I might have. I chatted with the freelancer company long enough to give them a full grasp of what I’m looking for and get a quoted price. Now I’m just waiting to hear back from and discuss it with others to get some other bids.
Cross your fingers.
Let’s change the world. 😎
I’ve been inspired a bit by Elon Musk’s story… when Tesla and Space X were both about on the verge of imploding, Elon sunk $100m of his own money into it because it was his dream. He wasn’t playing it safe. I’ve lived my whole life playing it safe, trying to be all established and secure, preparing for something that… never came. Time to risk. Time to lay it all out there. Time to change the world. If Elon can put in $100m of his own money, good grief, can’t I fund my dreams? What’s the worst that can happen? I lose everything? That’s not really scary. I’ve lost it all before. Life goes on.
And if I don’t? If I keep playing it safe? I know how playing it safe goes. It’s soul crushing. Dreams stay out in the expanse. They don’t become a reality because they’re not safe–you have to risk to get them, so they just stay out there, nice to look at but never realized.
Gonna risk it. If I’m never failing, I’m not risking enough. Fail big. And get up and fight again. I used to think it was sort of a badge of honor that pretty much every business venture I’ve ever tried has been successful. Well… now I realize I didn’t really risk much. Not that it’s bad to be careful and calculating. Good things happen when you’re careful and calculating. I’ve had a lot of success that way, but I haven’t lived my dreams. Haven’t really even tried to live my dreams.
With my phonetic alphabet project… they say it can’t be done. They give the “good luck” with that air of futility/impossibility. Why would they say that? Because ever effort to do what I’m trying to do now has failed each time it’s been tried throughout history? That’s true. Famous people with lots of influence have tried and failed. Every. Single. One.
So what?
Everyone had failed to fly until the Wright Brothers.
We’d never left the planet until we did. Now we’re planning to go to Mars.
It was an impossibility for the human species to run a four-minute mile, until Roger Bannister did it, and now even high school kids have done it.
Believe.
Anyway, time to change the world, folks. Hard hard work, but we can do it.
Man, I have so many things going in this brain. Fix cars, sell cars, get heavy equipment rental stuff going, finish taxes, buy house, start nonprofit, get phonetic alphabet going, conquer fear, love everyone, and hopefully find someone to walk this road of life with.
😶
So… yeah… there you go.
Busy brain day.
Love to you all. 😊
G’night, folks.
Lift the World
~ stephen
Lift the World 