Back To Basics

After a long, long few months of being in limbo over what I am going to do for a living after being laid off at Carpenter's Touch, I have learned a few life defining things about myself and my goals:

1. I want peace and simplicity in life more than I want extravagant success and wealth (a huge breakthrough for me)

2. I want to do something with my hands (I am a craftsman at heart I think)

3. I want to have a deep satisfaction in whatever I do for a living more than I want a huge paycheck and status symbols (again, something that I am just coming to grips with)

4. I want freedom to spend time with my daughters and wife and also to do things that are important to me like mountain climbing (despite what I have thought for years, I am beginning to think that you don't have to be among to super wealthy to have "time", you just have to be a little more strategic, creative and committed to making it happen than the average "Joe")

5. It sounds cliche I know, but I want to be my own boss! I want to be dependent on myself, to know that if I work hard and do what I supposed to do I will be rewarded for my efforts. I want this more than I want a huge paycheck... I would gladly take a pay cut to gain control and freedom.

Those things being learned, I have decided to launch back into the piano service business. I have placed some ads around the web and built a website and have seen some pretty good success from those venues, not enough to live on but for free advertising they have done well.

I will be putting the final touches this week on the acquisition/purchase of a 40 year old Denver based piano service business that I came across a few months ago and have been in the negotiations process for a while now. Anyway, we will hopefully be putting the final touches on the deal and sealing it up this week!

This is all very new and exciting for us and I am looking forward to being in control once again... something that I have missed for a long long time.