Good post on self employment by Rich.
Key Points
Many people have simply created very demanding jobs for themselves rather than businesses.
What am I good at? Do that more.
What am I not good at? Avoid that.
What lifestyle implications are there to this path? Keep your eye on the ball.
Am I creating work or developing a business?
Went for a nice 2 hour mountain bike ride yesterday.
Getting excited to head over to Kona. I enjoy traveling to events like this, just traveling in general. Hoping to do more of that in future years.
It’s that time of the year for me to regroup, refocus, resimplify, and recreate some plans and goals for the coming months and year. I try to take some time to myself and think, often. But lately, as in throughout my Ironman training, I’ve been in one (mostly 3rd) gear. Work, Train, Eat, Sleep - that’s pretty much all I had time for the last 6 months, and if I did have extra time I used it to sleep more. 
Now I have a little more time to think. Which usually leads to planning the future months, rethinking my current strategies/plans (work/projects), and trying to simplify things and reprioritize. I’ve discussed this in past posts, but I tend to take on too many tasks over time until I’m over taxed and stressed. I often need to take a time out and try to simplify things again. I thought I’d start this undertaking of the process with a new simplified template for my blog.
At least it will serve as a reminder to myself to keep things simple (simplify), work on limited number of projects (create - as this is what drives me), and keep pushing the limits of my endurance (endure).
The theme (Hemingway) is a little buggy on this trifuel.net multiblog platform system, so I can’t release it to the group. But if I have time, here I go talking about another project , I’ll look into the code to see if I can clean it up enough to let others use it if they like.
But maybe some year I’ll focus enough and the gods will be on my side and I’ll make it as a qualifier. I’m still shooting for the 60-65 age group, though I have to get a little faster still and then hold that form for 24 years. No problem
Went for a nice mountain bike ride on Saturday and then a couple runs since then. Fairly relaxed on my training, as I’ve been focused on my projects. BTW, thanks to those who’ve joined Feedstoke, I’m stoked (pun intended) about this project as I think it has some great potential. Added a couple more elements to the site and now I think I’ll just let it simmer and see if takes traction. Heading to Kona next week and when I return I’ll start working on some Trifuel enhancements, designs for kits, and whatever else I can think of. I’ll probably have to look for a part-time job as well as the winter season gets a little tight as the site and projects slow down a bit. I know… Poor Me Need to find something were I can learn some things and keep a schedule that allows me to continue working on the endurance stuff, online and offline.
Will probably also sit down while I’m out in Kona and put together a training plan for next season. Wisconsin is in September, but I have a lot to improve on for then. Need to get my run in shape and continue to workout my nutrition - general and training. I took a CHEK test from a book I just read and it identified me as a protein type. So I’ve been eating alot more protein than I had in the past. Lots of meats, fish, etc. and less wheat products. I’ve been on it for about 10 days now and I kinda like it. Been cooking more, which is good. And I don’t feel as sluggish as I had in the past. It could a number of things, like not working out as much, but I’ve cut back on the coffee, eating more protein, and trying to get to bed earlier. Still need to work on the water intake though. I need an alarm to go off every two hours to remind me to drink 10-12 ounces. According to Chek I should be drinking 80 ounces a day, and I don’t come close to that currently.
Hopefully I’ll have a connection while in Kona and I’ll send updates and photos.
Thought I’d check in. Again as my projects/ideas pick up, my blogging slows to a crawl.
Haven’t been doing a whole lot of training. Been bad. Just getting over a cold/flu bug, so now trying to get back into it. Did a short run yesterday and about 40 minutes today. Still a little congested but not coughing up quite as much phlem (sp?) as this weekend.
Getting excited to head out to Kona to watch the race. Gonna be good, though DeBoom just pulled out due to injury.
Been working on some ideas for Trifuel sister sites. I call them sister sites because they will be their own site, but still (for the most part) targeted to endurance/adventure athletes. I’ve been admiring the concepts behind sites like Newsvine and Digg. Were users who are passionate about topics feed the site with information and news, and others can vote on and discuss the items. The down side (in my opinion) to these sites is Digg is very techy and newsvine is very newsy, but neither have much in the way of sports and almost nothing in endurance or adventure type sports. So, I’ve been playing around with making a site that tailors to us (or me ). Another way for me to pursue other interests outside of Triathlon. Anyway, you can take a look and join in on the posting at Feedstoke. Very simple and basic for now, members just submit stories and then the rest of us read, vote on, and discuss.
I think it’s good for you BBB, you always post good links to stories and what-not in the Trifuel forums, but it gets lost in there sometimes. This site is hopefully a way to keep discussions on those topics going and allow people to create lists of their favorite items.
I’ll probably be working on this site for a while and see how it comes along. have other ideas and some redesign thoughts for Trifuel, so hopefully will work on those this fall as well.
Anyway that’s what I’ve been doing with my time as of late.
The endurance life and blog of Tribro. My journey to a more endurance lifestyle and Ironman WI ‘07.