MaMaLiRZ

Learning by necessity is turning into my strong suit! Learn to blog, easy. I always wanted to write but had every excuse for why I wasn’t. Create a logo…I have the idea, now to find a technical expert to bring it to life. Next was planning all the trips in a logical manner while ensuring sufficient consideration was given to work and school schedules, on top of park reservation requirements and weather. Then there’s the cost of the experiences and figuring out the budgeting. Those are all generally easy.

The difficulty is learning how to monetize it. What are people interested in, is my idea important enough or interesting enough to hold people’s interest? And if it is, are they willing to support it. If they support it, how? I mean let’s face it. Times are tough right now. Parting with each penny is difficult. Regardless of preference for the latest jobs report, our pocket books feel the weight of each check written. Paid subscriptions once forgotten about, are now scrutinized for necessity each billing cycle. Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, NFL, Starz, Starbucks, Fitness, Food Delivery, Meal Kits, and on and on and on.

So what I’m realized is that it is about my process. Yes, the idea of a business advertising on my sites and then paying me for it is appealing. But it won’t satisfy my soul.

The trips with my kids are enough. Yes the planning is long and tedious. Yes, the roadtrips can be long. The roadtrips often full of outbursts of noise that echos off the cars windows for no other reason than the boys needs to shed energy. Similar in nature and length as a dog with the zoomies. My children have this wonderful knack of exhaling their pent up, high pitched, stagnated vivacity in the most inopportune times. There is no understanding it. It happens in such an urgent and obnoxious way that it is both startling and freeing (at least for them) concurrently.

It usually scares the shit out of me!

My head spins around trying to determine what on Earth is happening. Quickly I discover them sitting calmly unaware of the noise that came from within.

The roadtrip over four hours from Zion National Park, through Las Vegas and on to Death Valley offered plenty of time to search my mind. My thoughts bounced off one side of my brain to the other. Finally they landed squarely on my lap. Some with more questions than answers, but all in positivism that I am moving in the right direction.