2012 Reboot

Hello World



Time goes by quickly. It is already 2012. With today being January 1, this is the traditional Reboot day for all.



A lot has changed over the past year. My consulting gig has turned out to be a full time job. I was working so much that I missed Spring, Summer and Fall. It really makes you wonder why. My purpose for being here is not for that. So, with 2012, I look forward to rebooting.



This year, I am opening my own niche company. I will be focusing on the Open Hardware area. I excel in customer service, personal interactions and have an eye for detail. I am not a walking techno-brain so I will leave the inventing up to other people. My strength is in bringing inventions to life. You, the inventor, create and leave the rest up to me. I will get your product manufactured and brought to market. As an inventor, you do what you do best - invent and put your passion into that. After that, I take over and we are off to the races.



I am so excited about this year. I will be blogging about my experience. How does one go about doing this? I am a 40-something, happily married with no kids person, presently pulling in good coin at a job that is fine. I am going to chuck it to work on something that I feel will add to my life experience as well as others. There is so much out there and it is time to go after what I want instead of playing the safe route. Even if I don't "win" and have to go back to the consulting gig, I did not fail. I will be a much stronger, different person after this experience.



I like the following as it talked to me (hopefully you too). It came from an interview Steve Jobs gave:

http://thenextweb.com/shareables/2011/11/30/must-watch-46-seconds-of-steve-jobs-on-changing-the-world/

"When you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.

That's a very limited life. Life can be MUCH BROADER. Once you discover one simple fact.

Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it. You can influence it. You can build your own things that other people can use.

Once you learn that, you will never be the same again."

Happy Reboot 2012. I am rebooting and I wish you success in your reboot!