Fly on the E-Commerce Cyberwall

Directions
I settled down tonight to catch up on some newsletters I hadn't gotten a chance to read, before running out to pick up my son from work. The newsletters still sit unread. I got a call from my daughter, the actress, feeling down about a number of things in her life and wondering what direction to take.

That's one of the most wrenching things as a father, helping one of your children sort through the box they've put themselves into. And as has happened with increasing regularity lately, I found myself trying to articulate to her my thoughts on how we get ourselves into these boxes and what we need to understand about ourselves to get out.

It seems everywhere I turn, I keep bumping into that same need to get these insights developed into a more articulated form. I know it will take quite a bit of time, and offers no hope of short-term income (although it lends itself well to a series of future info products). So I keep putting it off until my income from my site is steady enough to support a more long-term project.

But then I turn around and another situation slaps me in the face with a need to get this going. So my daughter's need for help with the direction of her life gets me questioning my own direction again. Is it better to work at building a business out of doing what many others are doing or take a further risk on something unique that I alone can offer? Don't answer that. I think we both know the answer. Ah, but accepting it enough to act on that answer is the tricky part.
Jeff