There is the tendency in readers seeing only the rosy part of you because to us, you are awesome no matter what!

The e-myth is overrated. If there’s something you love to do, and you can get paid to do it, for gods-sake DO IT.

Don’t worry about how efficient it is, or whether you’re working in-or-on the business. Do what you want to do. Use the money you make to support doing what you want to do. Count your lucky stars you’re able to make money doing what you want to do, rather than those who work day jobs to support night passions.

I also agree with Arun, we all change plans and alter our priorities.

I think if your passion is there it could deffinetlly be possible to turn LN into a business instead of just a job. Look at how Lonley Planet has become a business for Tony and Maureen Wheeler (check out the book Unlikely Destinations).

Keep up the awesome work.

Bill

There’s nothing wrong with revising a plan, or abondoning it all together in favour of something better providing you can legitimately justify the abandonment to yourself.

For example, my “dip” would be getting a record deal and supporting myself based off of that income alone. My chosen area of music is pop music, but studying jazz guitar and classical composition helps expand my musical palette in ways that benefit my pop songwriting.

Also, I spend a lot of time and effort working out/researching nutrition/generally improving my athletic performance. In order to improve my olympic lifts, I dedicated myself to increasing shoulder flexibility. I’ve found that stretching and massaging my neck and shoulders has significantly improved my singing.

I don’t doubt the value of laser-focus and being able to quit dead-end paths, but I think that well-roundedness has value even in the context of extreme specialization.

But as a reader, it seems that a lot of your coolest posts are the result of major course-changing decisions you’ve made, which almost always require “giving up” on other things: professional gambling, pick-up… all of this crazy/cool stuff that may not have happened if you were entirely focused and committed to one thing.

So keep at it, but realize that your tendency to spread your interest and “not follow through” at times has created some kick-ass opportunities for you in the past, as it probably will in the future.

Honestly I think that the problem here is the book “the Dip”, which I personally would have trashed.

It injected in you the idea that being successful means doing one thing and being the best at it.
Which isnt’ necessarily so.

And this lead you to the path of pursuing a perfect business idea wich you never achieve.
Imaginary obligation, I’d say!

Money can be made also from multiple micro-businesses brought forth until some of them develops to an accettable level.

I think that instead of selling away your ideas (Conversion doubler and the rest) you could have applied E-Myth principles to them.
That is, team work and sharing the cake.

I consider “The Dip” a personal development model not suited for you, if not a completely wrong one.

You can read my other buzzing against the book in “The Dip” thread, where I posted under the nick ‘Lazy Jones’.

Keep down the bad work!