Last week I gave my two week notice. I didn’t have a plan. I’ve done more interviews in the past three weeks than I have ever done in my life. I have talked with tons of people on my next step. Each time I think I convinced myself on my direction. Each time I have a sense it’s the wrong step. Today during my walk home, I started assembling the pieces.
Puzzle Pieces and Songwriters
I wrote a business plan last July and put it on hold. While walking home today I revisited it. I thought of the puzzle pieces written on my moleskin and started playing the air drums while composing a business idea in my head. And then I thought, this must be how songwriters feel. They hear the tune, they see the lyrics, they’ve come up with some clever rhymes, but the pieces haven’t been assembled. The words, verses, and melodies are floating in the air as they walk. That’s how I felt today.
The pieces to my business idea were dancing as I took each step. They were jumbled. Scattered over the sidewalk, in the blue sky, bouncing off the mountains. But they were there. My business idea was right in front of me. All I needed to do was capture the notes and chords, and the how-to’s. Now, I need to dump the puzzle pieces onto the ground and start assembling.
From Jumbled to Assembled
Thinking up a business idea seems like the easy step. Acting on the idea seems much harder. But I have always had a knack for putting myself into difficult situations and finding a way to swim against the current. Although it may be easier to get a full-time job, the road to self-employment spoke to me today. The path may be jumbled but it’s right in front of me. The game (songwriting, puzzle-assembling, or whatever you want to call it) has begun.