I am sure there are people out there that think I am totally crazy leaving my job next year. I earn a fabulous income, I can work from home, the hours are flexible and the 23 people I manage are all absolutely focussed on doing an extraordinary job. I am often wracked in doubt, why am I doing this?

Because I need to be my own boss again.

Corporate life sucks. If I look up through the layers of management all I see is waste. Waste of time, effort, people and passion.  In the last 12 months I have seen the light of enthusiasm go out of the eyes of my colleagues and it seems we are all just hanging on for the ride because everything is out of our control.

I can’t live like this for the next 20 years while I wait for retirement. I doubt if I would even make it that far with my Multiple Sclerosis, the stress sending me into a wheelchair prematurely.

Yet having that nice cushy income has meant that there has been no pain point to drive me to really create an alternative income. There has always been the safety net there, a safe landing place should things go wrong. This safety net has to go.

As of now I am implementing the “no money spent unless you made it on the internet rule”. That means my wage will be locked away, untouchable, and I will need to step up my efforts online. It has to hurt, and I bet it WILL hurt, but it is also going to give me more impetus to ramp up the business.

I have walked the high-wire in my own businesses before and I can’t wait to get my head back into that space fully. Instead of my day job taking 90% of my energy, I am moving my online businesses into the top 60% of my effort and letting the day job slide.

Call me crazy, but I am looking forward to the struggle.

Image care of Jon Fravel