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I have finally found an idea that works with my skills and history, I am combining things that exist but am directing it into a market that is underserved.
I am building it as a subscription based service.
I have a lot of work to do with the design and making formulas work.
Without counting the research that has to be done.
Right now I just hit a wall with what I was looking for. I am not too worried because I will regroup and try again, the basic google searches that I have used before for similar issues have not worked, but that just means that I have to be more imaginative. I also have a cousin that has worked for years in the specific field that I need more information, so I know that I will get my answers eventually.

I know that I am still months away from my first sale, and sometimes it feels like I want to spend all the free time that I have working on it, but yet sometimes have trouble getting down to actually do the work.
The mountain of work in front of me is encouraging, since it definitely means that I am following the command of entry.
But at the same time, sometimes I am discouraged. I know that this is not going to be a race but a marathon.
I know that sometimes rest is important not to burn myself out as I am also working full time in a really draining job, yet feel guilty every time that I do.

When I read the book, I underestimated how much of an effect that the desert would have. I got my idea in august, and played with it in my mind for a while before setting on the path to creation.
It is now November and there is still so much work that has to be done.
Getting started was actually really hard because there was so much work that I did not know where to start. Then just jumped in and started, even if most of the early work that I did is now going to be notes to guide me and will not show up in the final product.

Hoping to find an oasis in this desert to boost my spirits, and while my motivation to the final goal is still strong, I do sometimes have trouble with the day to day motivation.
Hope you are all doing well and for those stuck with me in the desert.
Let's keep doing the small actions every day, and eventually we will get there.

P.S. was at my sisters and explaining what I was doing, the next time I called my 10 year old nephew wanted to show me his graph and ideas for my business, he made up all the number in his head, but it was so cute. with such an ally on my side, how can I fail!
 
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O fu qmep vu siedj uav vu vji veshiv eafoipdi, epf O xet qesv ug ov gus uwis vip ziest, tu O fu jewi tuni ofie ug xjev ot piifif, nz duatop ot ep iyqisv op e wisz pessux goimf ug xjev O en fuoph. cigusi O siedj uav vu nz veshiv eafoipdi O xepv vu jewi ev mietv tunivjoph vu uggis, iwip og ov ot puv vji xjumi tztvin. vji cieavz ug xjev O en caomfoph ot vjev O dep emxezt eff epf nufogz et O hu. tu O xomm simieti vjopht cz tvehi epf ati vji giifcedl vu civvis vji qsufadv et O hu.
neslivoph xomm ci tunivjoph vjev O en huoph vu jewi vu miesp nusi ecuav, cav topdi O en puv siefz vu nesliv gus e duaqmi ug nupvjt, O en gudatoph up nz dassipv piift ev vji nunipv.
 
O lpux vjev O en tvomm nupvjt exez gsun nz gostv temi, epf tunivonit ov giimt moli O xepv vu tqipf emm vji gsii voni vjev O jewi xusloph up ov, cav ziv tunivonit jewi vsuacmi hivvoph fuxp vu edvaemmz fu vji xusl.

Ov ot pux Puwincis epf vjisi ot tvomm tu nadj xusl vjev jet vu ci fupi.
Jewi zua vsoif vu tugv-wemofevi zuas ofie?

O dep vuvemmz simevi vu xjev zua'si tezoph, et O'wi ciip epf tvomm en op vji teni cuev. Iwip vjuahj O jewi temit/datvunist, vjisi esi tvomm vonit xjip vjisi't pu nesliv giifcedl vu jimq haofi zua.

Xjev jimqif ni op vji cihoppoph xet hivvoph ev mietv tuni nesliv giifcedl. Op nz deti, ov xet siwoixt. Egvis vji gostv temi deni op, emm nz fuacvt xisi hupi - ximm, emnutv, topdi O tvomm jewi fuacvt ecuav nz catopitt nufim, cav vjev't epuvjis tvusz...

Zua nipvoupif, "O'n tvomm nupvjt exez gsun nz gostv temi." Xjomi vjev nez ci vsai, e muv ug qiuqmi, nztimg opdmafif, apfisitvonevi jux ges tuniupi dep hiv gsun 0 vu 1, xovj 1 cioph vji gostv temi. Ov fuitp'v jewi vu ci e qisgidv qsufadv gsun vji tvesv - ov katv piift vu fimowis wemai, epf vjev't tunivjoph vjev't jesf vu eshai xovj. Nezci mivvoph hu ug qisgidvoupotn duamf jimq tjusvip vji voni gsun 0 vu 1. Og vjev't tvomm puv quttocmi (topdi O fup'v lpux zuas tiswodi epf vjisi nez ci muhotvodt us nepagedvasoph opwumwif), O'f sidunnipf huoph vji tugv-wemofevoup suavi xovjuav e qsufadv. Zua duamf dsievi e temit qovdj xovj e tonqmi mepfoph qehi vu hevjis quvipvoem mieft. Vji nunipv tuniupi iyqsittit opvisitv op zuas qsufadv - vjev't emsiefz e gusn ug nesliv giifcedl, xjodj ot siemmz hsiev op nz uqopoup. Ov fuitp'v niep vjiz'mm edvaemmz caz, pus fuit ov niep zua jewi qsufadv-nesliv gov ziv, cav ov duamf jimq zua hiv uav ug vji "fitisv" ev mietv gus e xjomi.

Ev vji ipf ug vji fez, O vjopl zua jewi vu hiv dungusvecmi xovj vjev giimoph. Iwip vjuahj qiuqmi caz nz qsufadvt, vjisi't tvomm movvmi gasvjis nesliv giifcedl. E gix xiilt ehu, O siedjif uav vu nz iyotvoph datvunist, uggisoph vjin gsii edditt vu nz pix qsufadv - epf… bisu sitquptit. Iwip vjuahj O emsiefz jewi vjios vsatv. Ov't tvsephi, epf ov tadlt. Cav ov ot xjev ov ot.
 
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"SCALED TO 6-FIGURE MONTHS"
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— User MitchC
"INSANE QUALITY OF PEOPLE"
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— User Richard Peck

"You are the average of the five people you surround yourself with."
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