For the past four years I have had a truly excellent job. It was however a fairly all encompassing job, one which made it pretty difficult to do very much else. And for the past ten years or so I’ve also had an idea for a business tumbling around in my head. So a month ago I finished up my job and I’ve spent the last few weeks clearing out the various tasks and projects that remained to be done so that I can focus for a while on my idea.

Interestingly this might be the only time in the last fifteen years or so that I can recall getting almost no email. Facebook, Twitter and texting have taken over any personal communications, I’ve unsubscribed from almost all the random things I have received in the last few months and I have no business emails coming in. Inbox zero every day - Peace! For now anyway. It does feel a bit like I’ve removed myself from the world.

So the decks are now cleared, I have no legitimate distractions. I’m ready to sit down and digest some of the sage advice from Rowan Simpson about startups and figure out if my idea has legs.

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