Hey everyone!… actually, it’s probably just Matt and I reading these posts, but hopefully soon we’ll have some dedicated readers. :)

I’m Joe, and like Matt said, I’m 22 and attending Cal State San Marcos for Marketing. While I’m not slamming the books into my head, hoping that something will sink in, I’m working part time for a couple of companies. My “day job”, throughout the week, is working alongside Matt at the shutter manufacturing plant. I’ll let you get a grasp of how ravishing that industry is by reading Matt’s last post. On the weekends I spend my hours at the local Whole Foods Markets working for my wonderful girlfriend’s natural food promotion company. While hocking organically goodness, I’ve met various successful people that have started their own businesses and try to lead their own path through life. Working in both of these positions have allowed me to use my time, not only to complete my job, but to absorb many of the inner-workings of a business. Prior to these two jobs, I did not know much of how a business was run or what was needed to get one rolling; The only thing I knew was that my head needed to get in the game.

Spending the time at work with Matt has been one of the most beneficial things I could have done for expanding my needed knowledge in business. I can, almost fully, dedicate that fire in me to get things rolling to Matt. Digging up any free second we can at work, we’ll spend quickly throwing out some business ideas for the near future that we so madly long to begin. This blog comes from a direct result of our dire need to get something going and in the works.

As Matt stated in his previous post, this blog is more or less going to show our path during our journey to our goal.

“And what goal would that be ‘ol Joe?”… Well that goal I will tell!

It is definitely not to make all the money in the world, but rather to be happy and comfortable. We, and hopefully along with everyone else, believe that you shouldn’t have to wait until 50+ years of age to start the “Golden Years”; START NOW!! There’s no point to dibble dabble in the 9-5 positions that float around on Monster.com for 30 years and hope that you’ll end up with some nice retirement savings when it’s all said and done. Our goal is simply to kick that predisposition of getting a comfortable job out of the window and dragging those Golden Years, that seem light years away, and bring them into our lifetime, NOW! We want to live that life that has always seemed so far out of reach. Let me list a few things I wouldn’t mind doing in the upcoming couple years…

Travel to Europe and cycle around Italy, check. Buy a car that doesn’t make a pinging noise when accelerate going up hills, check. Purchase a house in San Diego and be able to call it my own, check. Complete an intense 200km, six-day run throughout Costa Rica, check. Wrestle bears and finally capture Bigfoot in some far off land… we’ll just say in the middle of Russia, check check check cheek chekc chkee.

Ok, well I got a little carried away there, but now you can see how excited and anxious this can make you! We all have the fire like this in us, you just need to find a way to free yourself and be financially comfortable enough to go out there and conquer the world!

Here’s a little quote from a book I just finished that I completely agree with:

“If you’re not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you’re not constantly demanding more from yourself–expanding and learning as you go–you’re choosing a numb existence. You’re denying yourself an extraordinary trip.”
-Dean Karnazes, Ultra Marathon Man

That quote and this post pretty much sums up how I like to live my life. Crazy? I like to think not, but I wouldn’t put it against you if you called me that.

Now on to blogging madness!!

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