I like stories about the migration of thought and motivations change for people over time, it makes for a fun story. My story was not as much about, ‘oh, I want to start a blog because, blah-blah-blah.” Honestly, this has taken me for quite a loop in where I was and how I got to this thought. I at some point was interested wanting to write more, as I was inspired by my wife and her writing. However, through our discussions, I loved continuing to read and write. My writing did not come naturally as I had to work on it for school.
In 2018-2019, I was at the point of gathering ideas for a blog. But my idea did not hit me directly as I was more circumspect of my past occurrences and where they got me. At this point, I was coming out of a short career of selling health & life insurance into the world of finance. The hours and work were plentiful, I was in charge, felt completely independent of my own destiny. It was tough, lots of rejection, and spoke with a lot of fantastic people. The change was not taken lightly as I knew I had to grow in my career. I was very grateful for the change, because of how life for me and my family will continue to improve with a change in work. I had to honestly say, I was blessed that my wife was incredibly diligent with the little I was working on, and her amazing patience as I was working to build a book of business.
I saw my wife do a lot of different things to make our budget work, and that we would not go behind on our finances. For some amazing thing, by the end of the month, I would make enough money from work that I would break even with our expenses. My wife was able to stretch a food budget, highly focus her times to drive (reduce time driving), and time spent with our children. She would plan out her week and days activities to make her work much more comprehensive and easier to manage. It was inspirational to see how she would work diligently through these things.
This made me start thinking about where I was, selling Health & Life Insurance. I spent most of my day marketing products to sell, and since this was my first business, it was difficult to start your own business. After spending some time, I was thinking to myself about the aspect of business building. Also, when you start your first one, it may not always be the last either. Some born with the entrepreneur spark will see many opportunities and work them. I was excited with this current prospect that I thought the value of having more than one business that I worked on. It felt that I was building a portfolio or a larger selection of myself to fit within the niche.
During this period of thinking about building my own website, I thought about the different types of niches and things that impact me personally. I for one, always felt emotionally tied into my home because I have a great affection for my nuclear family, the one I created, and my extended family to include my wife’s. I know how personal and great personal relationships felt. This is the largest reason why I began this past month regarding family, because they’re important to your identity and help.
I also had a nagging at the back of my mind, mainly because when I had a realization that I wanted to talk about home-economics, I’m almost thinking to myself, “Yea, that’s crazy,” a guy talking about the best ways to make home valuable?” I then thought, “why not?” In looking at the statistics of home-economics, they renamed themselves as the family and life science course for reasons to include more men into a name that would not sound so “feminine”. It is important that men and partners are able to contribute to their homelives, because of distinct advantages that couples provide to a family.
For the things I’ve struggled with, learned, and overcome through time, I wished that at some point I was taught those skills. However, I have overcome the challenges and learned to take on those skills. I’m also seeing a growing frustration for those through my Facebook, Pinterest, and general internet searches for people to complete tasks that we did not even consider as valuable. This has me thinking that when I got to college, I was among a few guys that knew how to iron my clothes. It wasn’t just ironing my clothes, I was doing Army ROTC and still had the old sets of BDUs; I taught them how to iron their uniforms and make them neat, clean, and highly presentable with a ton of starch for that crisp look. I took the concept with ironing that you must start from the collar and work down.
So, it is to my great interest that I would look forward into skills that I do and do not know and flush out those ideas on thehomeeconomy.com, so that I can prepare the new generation for life. You may not know everything, but I would rather make it easier for others to learn life-skills to make them more valuable as citizens. Life goals is a sense to being an integral part to your community, and we understand that value as we build upon our personal skills, develop them into an asset, and enrich our communities. With our sense of achievement, we continue to enrich improve out communities and establish continuity with our children.
As a part of seeing the need and community enrichment, I wanted to establish the value we see throughout ourselves. We must continue to build upon the skills we learned and make them viable to continue. The idea of self-sufficiency and reliance has benefits to your overall well-being instead of acting in servitude to those who do not understand your value. When you have highly developed skills, use them to improve yourself, your community, and tech others those benefits.
I have also seen a shift in home dynamics and the decrease of perishable skills. A reduction of perishable skills can signify a dying concentration, and a longer lead time to maturity. In practice, those who have plenty of resilience and youth have plenty to go on, but will lose out on their energy to produce well. This in turn has brought my interest in seeing a continuity of a craft that any couple envisions themselves working through. In gaining interest through my own physical community, I know there are plenty of people in cyberspace that are looking for someone just like me to bring this entire community back together and make it integral for life goals.
