Welcome to Smuggle Me

I’ve read a lot of things in my life that talk about the sacrifices that you have to make to be a successfuk entrepreneur. Not the least of which is Mark Cuban who describes starting a business as a 24x7x365 game. He even goes so far as to salute those entrepeneurs who happily choose their business over their family.

I’ve only met one entrepeneur that I think did a great job balancing the 2. I’m sure there are more, but I remember hearing about a guy who did a great job working his butt off at work, but still made it home at a reasonable time to be with the family. He had to plan better and make it a priority, but he did it.

Of course, in true entrepreneurship fashion, when someone tells me I can’t do it I want to find a way to prove them wrong. We’ll see in a couple years how I’ve done, but I think it’s possible to be an entrepreneur and still a good father. It will take a lot of compartmentalizing and planning, but I’m giving it a whirl.

The way I look at it is that the number one key to being a successful entrepreneur is persistence. It may take longer to be successful, but I think concistence persistence can achieve amazing things. Time will tell.

I’m at a really interesting point in my life. I have a decent day job and I’m making a decent amount of money blogging. That is kind of fun to say that I’m making good money blogging. I feel more like a websit guy than a blogger, but that’s mostly semantics. Anyway, I’m quickly approaching a time in my life where I need to make some decisions.

Inside of me I feel like I need to be an entrepreneur. However, I’m likely one the most risk averse entrepreneurs ever.

The nice thing is that I have my blog income as kind of a foundation for doing a lot more. I just wish it was a touch larger and that I could be more certain of its consistency.

I do have 3 possible choices to pursue (at least logical ones). One is fun, but could never be HUGE so that one is out.

The next idea is reliable and could do well,but could likely never go huge.

The last idea has the most potential, but is my least developed.

Now it’s just a matter of deciding how to proceed.