Welcome to the New American Dream
This is a post that I’ve wanted to write for a long time but just never found the right moment to share it. And of course, now that I say that I feel like I’ve just gone and over hyped it! I guess I should start by explaining that a few short weeks ago I hit what I consider to be a major milestone in my business. On May 20th 2016, I celebrated my 2 year anniversary of working for myself full time. It wasn’t the anniversary of my shop or my blog or youtube channel, it was the anniversary of the day that I stopped working for someone else and started working for myself full time. You may already know the story, I was working for a Fortune 50 company for over 5 years when I finally had my lightbulb moment and decided to work for myself. I won’t bore you with the details again, but for some time before that day I had really begun to feel like working for yourself or at least in a job that gives you ultimate locational freedom is the new American Dream.
This was a dream I was first introduced to when my mother married a man who worked full time from his home. It seemed like such a novel idea to me, using the internet to telecommute and having the freedom to work from anywhere, even if that was just your house. Now, although I thought telecommuting was the greatest idea ever from that point forward, I didn’t really understand how I would be able to make something like that happen for myself. My step father was, after all, a computer programmer, which I think is a profession that we often associate with men sitting behind big computer screens typing away in solitude. I wasn’t going to be a computer programmer, I knew that much, but I did have a great love for the internet and the possibilities it brought to my future career possibilities.
The next time I was introduced to the idea of this new American Dream, it came in the form of a best selling book that I was eager to read. The 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferris, with the very intriguing subtitle, Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich. Well, doesn’t that sound like something! In Ferris’ book he went on to explain this new American Dream through examples of work from home employees who negotiated their schedules and business owners who put in place systems to give them more time freedom. It all made sense to me, although again, I wouldn’t understand how to execute on this concept myself for another 4 years, but the seed was firmly planted and as they say flowers only bloom where seeds are plated. And watered. And weeded.
Well, you know where this story is going and of course four years later after much watering and weeding, this idea of the new American Dream blossomed for my own life. But the story doesn’t end there. Now, two years later, much more watering and weeding and planting has been necessary for me to keep my new American Dream alive. It’s not enough that I made it happen for myself, I have now shifted my focus on how to keep my dream happening, how to keep my business going and how to make sure I continue to live my dream.
If this idea of the new American Dream is something you are also casing but having a hard time making a reality for yourself, I want to let you know, YOU ARE NOT ALONE! It took me years to figure out what I was doing and make it work before I hit the eject button on corporate 9-5 and started living the dream. And I want to give you a little heads up that next week, I’ll be announcing something you won’t want to miss. It’s something I have planned to help you water and weed the seeds of entrepreneurship that you have already planted in your own mind. If you don’t want to miss it, make sure you are on my list by signing up below and you’ll be one of the first to know!
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