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So, This is how I work.

I have an entrepreneurial idea about as often as most guys think about sex.  And as far as I can remember, I’ve always been like this.

When I was really little, I did lemonade stands, popcorn stands and random rummage sale days, where I put a TV tray out with stuff I no longer wanted.

My friends and I wanted to see a musical.  So I wrote one.  Cast my friends in it, directed them, choreographed the songs and performed it for the student body at recess.  I was in 4th grade.

I did a marketing campaign for a local store at 17.  You get the idea.

It’s a sickness, really.  And it’s gotten worse as I’ve gotten older.

I’m writing a book, and while looking up publishers, I think, “Why not just start a publishing company?”

The latest example…  I need a web host for my writing website.  Soon to be two sites… one for the book, and one as a portal for all my other projects - my own corporate headquarters, if you will.

As I’m researching options, and asking the expert-type folks I know for advice, I get to thinking…  “Maybe I should be a re-seller, maybe I should even get/build my own server and host my site from my house…”  And the maybes go on.

I swear, by the time I retire, I’m going to have at least 20 small businesses.  And hopefully not be bankrupt.

It’s not that I’m indecisive.  I just want to do everything.

Is that too much to ask?

Subtext of Purpose

In an IM chat with my friend Robert, yesterday, among our ramblings he wrote many things that rang true for me.  He’s a massage therapist, yoga instructor, wonderful cook, and in juxtaposition to his “hippie woo-woo shit,” he’s also a budding comic who I refer to as “The Bitchy Sister.”

Among his gems was that the underlying theme to everything he does is healing.

I relate to this quite a bit, as I’ve referred to my own subtext, in the past.  Whatever I do, from business support services, to entertaining, to writing, to hanging out with friends, my aim is helping.

So, even while my purpose on this earth, as I currently understand it, is to open people’s minds, the subtext is help.  Help them to open up, learn to know - instead of fearing the unknown.   Help them to tolerate until they can understand, and understand until they can care, and care until they love, and love until they can love unconditionally.

These things may have no bearing, nor be of interest to anyone else, but in my world of shameless navel-gazing,  I like to take a look at my facettes every now and again.  Take from it, what you will.

And now I wonder…  What’s your subtext?  What’s between your lines?