Baby steps for me.

[cheez avenger]

I've already sent out my once a week email template. I actually don't work for a private corporation (city government), so I had to tweak mine. I'll figure one out for my "personal" inbox.

I'm canceling the cable. ($800 a year saved for mini-retirement), and selling all of my stuff in the storage facility; closing that down too ($1008 a year saved for mini-retirement).

I'm saving money left and right! :D


Of course, I'll be digging myself outta debt...

Instead of planning mini-retirements at 6 months like Tim, I'm gonna start off with micro-retirements.
I live in Southern California, so I'll be going to San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego, and Santa Barbara-Wine Country-Napa Valley. These will be easy weekend excursions to prepare me for the big ones!

I'm so pumped right now!:) :) :)


In the meantime, I'll be learning how to speak french, and researching my "muse".

That's the ultimate goal. Get a muse that will generate income automatically.


Cheers!



-cheez avenger

[read]

I love the idea of micro-retirements! This sounds like a perfect way to get immediate fun in, even while planning the muse, automating, and eliminating.

Also, hats off to you on all the decisions made so far--

[cheez avenger]

I love the idea of micro-retirements! This sounds like a perfect way to get immediate fun in, even while planning the muse, automating, and eliminating.

Also, hats off to you on all the decisions made so far--



Thank You!
It's great isn't it?!

I can slowly graduate into 1 week ventures to (for example) New York, Miami, Hawaii, Mexico, Canada. All before going to the bigger places.



BTW, I've already copyrighted "micro-retirement"... ;)



-cheez avenger

[marcus]

I'm just curious as to the direction you're going with your 'muse.' I read The E-Myth Revisited which was one of the books he recommended and it's great. Definitely inspirational in the muse area.

[cheez avenger]

I'm just curious as to the direction you're going with your 'muse.' I read The E-Myth Revisited which was one of the books he recommended and it's great. Definitely inspirational in the muse area.



That's what I'm currently brainstorming on.

E-books sound cool, but I'd have to know what the hell I was talking about. It would also be something that someone would want to buy.

I have the E-myth revisited on hold at the library, I'll take a look once it arrives.

Yup, the muse is going to be the trickiest of them all.


-cheez avenger

[seven]

One of my ideas involves either an E-Book, Audio CD, or CD-Rom (or a combination thereof) and my biggest fear is that after investing to do it that once it's available people might pirate it or something to that effect.

What are other peoples thoughts on this? Is piracy/theft a minor or major concern?

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[Marcie]

my vote is no, and if someone else becomes a competitor you have to keep making sure you have the better product, best guarantee, etc. I think for the most part most people are honest. For the most part that is :P

[Killman]

Cheez,

I'm glad to see someone else works for City Government. There are many things that I can take away from reading the book, but there are just some things (VA, emails/phone calls once a week) that just won't work in my line of work. When you job requires you to interact with citizens on nearly a daily basis, you don't have much of a choice on what can be eliminated.
I am working on seeing if I can do the email/phone checks twice a day. I actually just completed an Outlook/Time management course and, while they did not mention doing an auto-responder announcing it, they did suggest checking emails only twice per day.
My goal at this point is to find my muse and use it to finance my micro-retirements. Eventually - hopefully - I can find one to eventually take the place of my full time job and get out of the public sector!

[Tony Lukasavage]

One of my ideas involves either an E-Book, Audio CD, or CD-Rom (or a combination thereof) and my biggest fear is that after investing to do it that once it's available people might pirate it or something to that effect.

What are other peoples thoughts on this? Is piracy/theft a minor or major concern?

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This is depends heavily on your audience. If you are selling informational products to file-sharing happy demographics (young men), you might feel more of a pinch than in other demographics.