Slowing Down!

It’s been hard to keep it up lately.  I’m working on a few things, but none of them are launchable, and missing my deadlines is not appropriate.  I’ve just been so overwhelmed by trying to live off a teacher’s salary this year, and more than that, being in an apartment (while I own a gorgeous house).  I’m the type of guy that really would have thrived as a classical “client.”  The patron-client relationship was the medieval and renaissance lord-artist relationship you picture from the movies.  A rich “patron” (yes, same word as “padre,” but with the -on attached to mean “super-father”) would hire a “client”–basically an artist-in-residence–who would just be a sugar daddied artist.  That’s where we get a lot of great art.  And that’s what I need, because I’ve done a lot of amazing things for a lot of people, but really can’t thrive until I have some security.  So I’ve gotta’ really build an empire of bread-and-butter so I can start using my real gifts.  Maybe it’s just the beginning of mid-life-crisis #2 (or 3, depending on how you count it–but the one you get when you’re 35).  In any case, I promise to have some businesses up soon and to upgrade some of my earlier ones.  There’s demand, and I’m just not filling it, and that’s not right.  ScriptureForum.Net is on track to get 1200 uniques this month (in it’s 3rd month!), and it only has half its chapters live.

So I again need partners, investors, patrons, and an energy drink.  And I need to get to work–no, literally, it’s 7:57.

[Don’t worry, I never quit. I don’t mean that in some extra Y chromosome sense; simply that always in business one of my biggest problems is that it’s never about the money for me. It’s just about the verbing–I think the basest of human instincts is just to verb as verbish as possible. In other words “man is meant to act and not be acted upon.” Non-passiveness is what gives anyone confidence, and I thrive a bit too much on my ability to move myself, both literally and metaphorically. So I’ll probably starve until one of these hit, and I don’t think that’s as bad or as academically unsound as it sounds. So I’m really about evenly likely to keep this up for 500 businesses as I am to quit after 14.]