Today I’m getting my fasting labs so my refills can continue with the new year. I’m working on a fast since I went to bed at 7 last night. Yes, I go to bed early but with all the sleep deprivation I suffered from growing up, all that difficulty, and all that caffeine addiction, in my adult life I go to bed. My life has been about constantly getting abused by somebody. I left my adult relationship. I’m trying to build a better future for myself where I actually reach my goal of becoming a lawyer. I have spent the last ten years getting out from under my mother’s oppressive yoke of “don’t see a psychiatrist” and “I can manipulate them into raising your meds.” I’m finally free of my family though. This means I can start thinking clear-headed about what I want to do with my life.
I’m trying to find a new job here, and I think if I’m making around $60 ought to be more than enough extra income. I’m paying up my AAA fee this month. AAA is great roadside assistance because I went there to pay the car registration fee. January is when the good jobs will come. I’ve decided I want to become a baker, which would piss off my family but make me happy. Of course, they will backtrack and say, whatever makes you happy is fine. Hell, baking is a job. So is becoming an artist. I’m trying to get sources of income together. This is not a crime, this is a necessity. I also have books I want to write, which is why I got up this early today in order to work.
I’ve been looking for a job since my Deliberate Magazine internship ended in September. I was writing copy during that time and eating very well. Now that the internship is over, I’m looking for another job. I found a good transcription job though, that could tide me over for the Textbroker seasonal slow down. I’m working on the training for the transcription job. I’m confused about how they work a bit but I’m sorting through the confusion. Anyway though, I feel a need to write articles this morning. I woke up early. I woke up like at 3:45 a.m. Why? I guess yesterday I got a lot of rest since I feel pretty well-rested right now.
A bipolar with histrionic will have many a mood swing. This kind of disorder runs in my family. You see, people pretend to be polite to those who do not take medication for any reason. One of them had encouraged the dog of someone to bark while the dog parent was making sure the dog didn’t bark at all. My family member ran roughshod over this idea of the dog not barking, encouraging it to bark at another dog in the old homestead. Nobody notices this person’s drinking habits a long with their flamboyant personality that people seem to like even as the person is thinking mean things to say about that person to either other people or myself. I have volumes of the mean things this person has said, in my head or that can be accessed via the Akashic Records.
See, sociopaths lack empathy for others; they really do not have much of it. I realize without certain people around in this house, I’m far less stressed out. My blood sugar doesn’t skyrocket when interacting with my family simply because I avoid them. This is why I don’t go to Thanksgiving, the holiday highs. I’ve managed to get that under control. I’m attempting to rest a lot this year, since my life contained less of that for a long time. I was stable enough to date until 2016 when I blew my knee in yoga. I was doing nothing in yoga but I feel my knee injury was a huge psychic attack-caused situation. Histrionics do a lot to get attention. Histrionics are easily influenced to drink more. It doesn’t take much pressure sometimes. I avoid relatives because of this, since his OCD demands I drink in his presence, I’m an alcoholic, and I don’t want to be around an ugly scene if I go, and insist I do not drink. What ever happened to free will eh?
This is a simple idea whose time has come. Buying medical supplies is very expensive. What I imagine is that some people could trade their medical supplies with others. A vial of test strips could be traded in exchange for a package of insulin pump tape for those who infuse. Then there would be unlimited opportunity to trade supplies. I need a web programmer for this one. This idea is defined as a non-profit for some reason, which is why there cannot be a membership fee. This website should be entirely free to use like a free eBay. It would help a lot of people. We’d have to raise money for this kind of idea if it is defined as a non-profit. I’d have to learn grant writing.
I want to start a gluten-free bakery. My competition on Yelp has gluten-free options but those who have to truly be Gluten-free need to make things in a gluten-free kitchen. Any sort of ingested gluten can make them very ill. Some people take a gluten-free diet very seriously such as some friends of mine who have ADD and need to be gluten-free. I need a gluten-free business partner who knows about gluten-free baking. We’d have a whole line of products. We would use real butter though. Gluten-free flour is more versatile right now than it ever was in the 1990s.
I need to get books on angel investing or look up endless resources online. The good part about the rain falling on the Bay Area is that I’m going to be able to stay indoors a lot with less opportunity to spend money. I’m trying to keep a lid on my spending this month. A total lid on it, as in, being very careful with my spending. I want to do better with my money, not worse. I want to see how much money I can actually save given the circumstances. Yes, I’m low income for now.
My net worth is $12,000 in the immediate present, or lifetime earnings. I have to wonder how I can make a lot more money than this. Getting more books from the library is necessary for my knowledge. At the end of the year, on Facebook, I write a post saying how many books I’ve read. The current count is like 73, give or take, and I keep up with my reading. It will rain consistently for the next few weeks. My car is parked in the garage, and the battery is dead because I need a new one.
I’d rather not drive feeling as stressed as I feel financially right now. There is no need to drive myself anywhere because I’m getting myself to appointments via the Medi-cal cab service. So in which case, I’m not driving. My family does not need to know about this. I’m very strict about the no-contact rules with them. I have to start getting business partners who can be an angel investor. This is one way to raise income to get off SSI. They cut you when you have significant income, and only when you have it. They are not that crazy about how much money you can have. I know many of their rules, and I can work around it.
My big weakness as an entrepreneur is marketing. Marketing is something that does not come easy to some people, although I can learn it like anybody else. Marketing involves having a successful six to eight minute pitch geared towards the dwindling attention span of an adult. Marketing takes place inside your local community, something I do not do enough of which is walk or run a 5K charity walk, or sponsor a Little League team. I didn’t even think of printing bookmarks to leave at your library but I thought about fliers. I need ink for my printer to get this done. I’m contemplating going to Target to get real HP ink cartridges and put it on my Target card.
Coupons for your business are one way to promote the existence of it. I hadn’t even thought about coupons because I’m clueless about marketing. I also need to go to entrepreneur Meetups but I’m scared I’m going to run off the mouth and tell people my ideas who will then steal it. Back in 2016, I was doing Toastmasters to work on my public speaking skills. Public speaking skills are in high demand when you are an entrepreneur, so I was learning how to put together presentations that made sense.
A small business owner does not necessarily have to hire professional firms to get stuff done. I’m scared to get customers, since you have to talk to people, and I’m scared to get referrals. But then again, how else am I going to have a successful business? I already had a friend drop a hint she wants a reading. Customer relationships are how marketing gets done. I’m supposed to be talking to more people than I am. The first rule of marketing is also to give away samples of your business services or your product.
https://blogs.constantcontact.com/market-your-small-business/
This t-shirt business is still in my head but on paper in the form of a business plan that Bank of America was impressed by. I want to start an Etsy store but I want to print this T-shirt as an entirely made in the USA product including the Ink. The Tech Shop could help me do this in good weather. Now if I can stand being out in public this spring because my left knee gets all the way better, then this would be a perfect arrangement. Go to the Tech Shop, take a class on T-shirt screen printing. I also need some more business classes at SCORE.
I need to file two fictitious name statements such as one for Tough B, and one for my psychic private investigations firm, which doesn’t have a name yet. I do not have a name for my psychic business. The Fictitious Business Name statement is filed with the county, at the Santa Clara County Clerk’s office although you can do an application online using the self-service form. The filing fees are $40.00 for each business. This is affordable, somewhat. It is not impossible. I’d rather stick with a Wix website, it may be cheaper, and my blog is always a vehicle. I’m waiting to make money from blogging already, and that involves building leadership.
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