After 15+ months of searching, learning, educating, getting lost, chasing empty dreams and false prophets, I’ve found the yellow brick road: publishing. I will now focus the rest of my career on building a world-class publishing company from scratch. This should be good.
Here’s are 17 good reasons why I’ve chosen this path (or why it’s chosen me):
- It’s about words and I love words.
- It calls for unique, hybrid talents including creativity, editing, design, technology, marketing, sales, entrepreneurship and discipline.
- It calls for someone daring, bold, clever and willing to take calculated risks. That’s me.
- The name, brand and logo of Wordful makes this a perfect fit.
- There is a real chance I can be hugely successful in the long-term and for generations to come (the business can outlive me).
- It’s a very complex, challenging and competitive field, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.
- I’m forced to actually produce something, set goals, create deliverables.
- I’m intensely passionate about it. I can live, eat and breathe the publishing business.
- It’s about time, Chuck.
- This career could lead to even bigger and better possibilities.
- I have a chance to really make a difference with something totally my own.
- It’s my only ticket out of this rigid situation I’m stuck in.
- It’s a respectable gig.
- I can make a LOT of money as a publisher.
- I really get to use my English degree.
- Not to mention every bit of experience and education that came after my before and after my English degree.
- I have full creative freedom over the business operations as well as content acquisition
So for me, the next challenge is having the discipline to actually sit down (or stand, whatever) and publishing something. The first thing that comes to mind is a small web “handbook” for download by West Hawaii Today readers.
Falling asleep….g’nite.