Since I missed last week and have quite a bit to say, I have decided to write 2 posts. This is “Act 1.” That’s what you readers get when I make friends with a filmmaker.

In April, tax season ended. My 13^th year of rushing around like an idiot, leaving right after walking the dog and getting home to eat a late dinner and crawl into bed, dream of tax returns, awake and start over again.  Please make no mistake, taxes are something I actually enjoy. It’s a hard 3 ½ months spent typing away, but taxes are like a puzzle. The solution looks correct and has the most money coming back or the least taxes owed.

But this year is 14, and I must say I am tired of having money and no time, then time and no money. Finding another seasonal job to match up has not been easy. It was easy when I sold ATVs but that’s been more than a few years ago.

Many summers I have tried to find some other way to make money, this summer was a grand push. In July I attended a seminar with some big names in Internet Marketing, Pat O’Bryan, Tony Laidig, Ben Mack and Joe Vitale.  They discussed their different ways of how they make money. I met people whom I will always remember and always be friends. Martha Giffen, Wendy G Young, Twenty Twenty and Carol Wingert, Kim Burney, and so many more that I can not ignore. And my circle of friends is ever growing from that experience.

In a fury I worked, following the methods taught I created a webpage selling an ebook, and then a monthly membership website. I poured money and time into them, fully hoping and believing that something would happen. Yet it seems that my little seeds were duds, for in five months they have done nothing. With tax season approaching, in despair I slunk off, tail between my legs.

To keep my job, there were classes and tests to take. So I took them, and this week finished up on all the tests, there are more classes to take, but I can take them while at work. Get paid to take classes, nothing better. Well, there is… but I shall get to that.

You see, I failed this summer. I failed to make income enough to support myself without tax season. But this week, reflecting upon tax season, I recall many people I promised to see this year. And the greater realization was that each failure brings me that much closer to success. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Alva Edison So it is with this. It will not work following other people’s path to Internet success. I have always danced to a different drummer and so this shall be…

Write. Any great book needs an ending, even better to end with another great beginning. So I will work, and while working I will write. Write in free moments, write at night. Write when by the moonlight.

Write blogs, write books, write ebooks. Write about Green Issues, write about life, write about abuse, write about a movie I saw just yesterday… Oh wait that’s Act 2. But I pray in following my heart, the money will follow… my shirt business grows, even unattended, so let the writing be thus and now an intermission until Act 2.