“The RoseBouquet”

Am I still working on my research project? Yes, I am.

Tell me, how often do you dream up some fantastic plan that will lead to your prosperity and a chance to help others at the same time? So how many of those plans have come to pass?

Exactly! I’ve daydreamed about several ideas over the years. When the first big one didn’t happen it took me a while to realize that it was at least fodder for a novel. Slowly, over 30 years I wrote and re-wrote it many times. On Sunday after church I was introduced to another author, and I realized that I still need to throw myself into a push to sell that book. Publishing alone isn’t enough if you don’t follow through. Right now, though, it has to be on the back burner while I set up some streams of income to support myself while I do that.

I’ve dreamed up several business ideas and in my vivid imagination they were were as good as done. However, now as I’m researching this one web business idea, I’m discovering that to make a dream come true you really do need to check into the nitty gritty parts of it, dissect it and see whether it is really feasible. You can be in for some interesting surprises.

I need another morning or so to wrapup my weighing of pros and cons, and making a decision, but already I’ve learned that although that dream could be made doable, it would not bring in quite the fantastic results that I had imaged. With determination and hard work I could make it happen. However, I have been open to God’s leading and was willing to let go of that idea if it turns out not to be a wise move. In the process, I’ve re-learned something I had already learned from SiteBuildIt! (SBI), and now I’m leaning towards an approach much more in line with what I’ve already been doing that should have less stress and pressure in it.

It’s better not to leave it hanging as a tantalizing dream, for my imagination will build an empire around it in my head, so I need to do a bit more organized thinking. Dreams only become plans when we do some methodical thinking and research and take some actions.

Sunday was Father’s Day and I was thinking back to my Dad, I realized that he had taught me some wise things. I made a list, and guess what, I found at least seven. So I’ve just turned that into an article for the Ruthe’s Roses section.