Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).
...I've been working full time on Clarity now for going on for eight years. I've always wanted to do two things with it: share the I Ching, and make a living. Well, I can chalk up one success there, largely thanks to you extraordinary people here, and one failure.
I've never mentioned this before - partly out of sheer embarrassment, partly because I've kept telling myself I hadn't made a success of it yet, but I was laying foundations for next year and building a business. It's taken some time, but hints of the real world are starting to percolate through to me. If I'm not making a living, then I'm not running (much less building) a business, I'm indulging in a supremely time-consuming hobby.
Don't get me wrong - there is no hard luck story here. Far from it: David's happy to provide for us both, and does so with the kind of effortless ease that comes with genius. Definitely no hard luck here.
Of course I have ambitions, but that's not the point at all. The point - well, the point comes where two facts intersect. 1) I'm giving my life to this and 2) I'm making no contribution to our home, beyond filling one corner of it with typing noises for about 10 hours a day. I'm kidding myself, and this is not good.
What to do about this? For one thing, I'm stopping my 'next year' rationalisations. It has to be this year that something changes. Not to get all the way to being able to fund a mortgage, that'd be unrealistic in the time, but I want to reach £1000/month by December, and I want that to be part of a rising trend, not a blip.
And if I don't make it, I'm going to stop.
I wouldn't shut the whole site down, don't worry. I'd leave the information pages up, fund the forum for a while and put up a big donations button to pay for it in future. I know people value this community, so I'm sure that would be OK. I'd just shut down the 'products and services' part, and go in search of another way to earn a living. I have no clue what, and absolutely no interest in thinking about that, because I don't want this to happen...
Well Bamboo is working on a screenplay....
I am trying to figure out what the ****** stand for.....
Bardem suits my moodiness, yes. As for the above, actually, the thermos only holds the hot water and the "mate" (gourd) holds the yerba mate. You pour the hot water, slowly, and sip away from the "bombilla" (the silver straw you see there)BTW, In your present icon, I imagine you are holding a thermos of Yerba Mate, but it looks like you are hugging a bong!
Clarity,
Office 17622,
PO Box 6945,
London.
W1A 6US
United Kingdom
Phone/ Voicemail:
+44 (0)20 3287 3053 (UK)
+1 (561) 459-4758 (US).