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I’m about to do something I’ve never done before, and I’m pretty freaked out.
In just two days I will sit quietly at my keyboard and in just a few keystrokes I’ll launch my first software app.
I’ll walk my first client (who I’ve actually been working with for months at this point) through the setup process for the very first time on my new app, and then I’ll sit back and watch to see what happens next.
That’s the part I’m most freaked out about…
In 2010 I read Dan Miller’s book No More Mondays and it changed everything for me. At the time I was struggling to remain motivated working for a very small pre-money startup.
I was running the operations for this startup which meant I was on call 24 / 7. My phone would buzz at all hours of the night and I’d have to go kick some servers. It wasn’t sustainable.
I was conflicted though because I believed I wanted to be part of the startup world more than anything. I had left my previous job to pursue this dream of working on the ground floor building something I loved, and I was confused that it didn’t feel more awesome.
Dan’s book gave me a glimpse into another side of entrepreneurship I had not yet discovered. He showed me a world where people were starting and running their own businesses on their own terms.
I was hooked.
I started pursuing my own idea immediately. In the years that followed I tried a huge number of businesses and projects all striving for the prize of living and working on my own terms. I did everything from financial coaching to custom websites to consulting.
I tried almost anything I could think of that sounded fun (and some of them actually weren’t fun at all).
But one thing was always “out of bounds” for me.
