Improvising Cooking in Korea

We are sick and tired of eating rice. Nathaniel has been surviving on a diet of bibimbub, a dish of white rice mixed with veggies and Korean red chilly paste. He has been doing it for years. It is bibimbub every day for lunch. I have been eating kimpup, which is white rice rolled in a see weed with some veggies in the middle, a Korean knockout of sushi.
We have no oven, but we have done our best to do some normal cooking at home. Here are examples....

entrepreneur's priorities list

1. To Own My Business
2. To Give People Work
3. To Go on Vacation
4. To Live my Life


Numbers and order are irrelevant. Whatever happens first.

Bugging thoughts about business

Some thoughts about running our school business have been bugging me big time for the past couple of weeks. What am I doing? Am I doing it right? Are my thought processes and current activities in tune with my bigger goal?
I keep reminding myself why I started the whole thing. I want an OUT, out of what has been called a rat maze or trap, when you go to work to trade your time for money all your life. The moment you stop doing it, you have to rely on the little savings you have made so far. You are back in the trap. In this scenario, you have to spend too much of your life at work, after that you prioritize your family and give them time, then sneak a bit of time for a hobby, a study, or any other interest. And life is gone.
So how do I get out, how do I spare time for my life out of the endless cycle of work/trade? How do I end up running and owning a business, instead of slaving my ass and being the same employer I have been all my life? True, I do not have bosses, but still cmon, what we are doing now is far from what I want for me and Nathaniel.
I know I have to outsource. I have to give people work, any people: cleaning people, teachers, even my own kid. I need to start trusting people to do work for me. God knows how much I am struggling with this idea. Even thinking about it gives me unbearable strain in my shoulders. No wonder, since most of my life has been and still is about control.( I control the process and the results.) If I want to grow, I will outsource. Need to think what I can outsource. I know Nathaniel and I are the main workers and we do not have need or money to outsource work to others. But from what I believe about life processes the mind needs to be ready to expand and to encourage the leap into a new direction. When I lighten my psycho baggage of being such a control freak, I can grow, and my business can grow with me. By the end of this post, I am actually excited to move on, and see what life will bring my way.

A step at a time

The hard thing for me to do with the business is trusting myself. I get an idea, and I get a feeling, many feelings, some of which scare shit out of me. I have never cultivated "the trust in myself" feelings. I have been very good at shutting myself up out of some stupid reasons which I later can not recall. Stubbornness helps. I am one of the stubbornest people I have met. I am bothered by it as well as my excess selfishness, but I am starting to appreciate both of them. They play very well when I don't seem to bring myself trust me. I would do right things out of stubbornness. It is still different. I sort of get angry because I have to fight the voices telling me to ignore me and would turn into a raging bull or a train with no breaks focused on a goal, crushing obstacles on my way. Most of the time the person obtructing me from reaching this goal in a more peaceful and healthier manner is myself. Do I really have to get mad and work with this rage and anger?

Hugh MacLeod's rules for business

http://gapingvoid.com/books/


1. Ignore everybody.

2. The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours.

3. Put the hours in.

4. If your biz plan depends on you sud­denly being “dis­co­ve­red” by some big shot, your plan will pro­bably fail.

5. You are res­pon­si­ble for your own expe­rience.

6. Ever­yone is born crea­tive; ever­yone is given a box of cra­yons in kin­der­gar­ten.

7. Keep your day job.

8. Com­pa­nies that squelch crea­ti­vity can no lon­ger com­pete with com­pa­nies that cham­pion crea­ti­vity.

9. Every­body has their own pri­vate Mount Eve­rest they were put on this earth to climb.

10. The more talen­ted some­body is, the less they need the props.

11. Don’t try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds alto­gether.

12. If you accept the pain, it can­not hurt you.

13. Never com­pare your inside with some­body else’s outside.

14. Dying young is ove­rra­ted.

15. The most impor­tant thing a crea­tive per­son can learn pro­fes­sio­nally is where to draw the red line that sepa­ra­tes what you are willing to do, and what you are not.

16. The world is chan­ging.

17. Merit can be bought. Pas­sion can’t.

18. Avoid the Water­coo­ler Gang.

19. Sing in your own voice.

20. The choice of media is irre­le­vant.

21. Selling out is har­der than it looks.

22. Nobody cares. Do it for your­self.

23. Worr­ying about “Com­mer­cial vs. Artis­tic” is a com­plete waste of time.

24. Don’t worry about fin­ding ins­pi­ra­tion. It comes even­tually.

25. You have to find your own sch­tick.

26. Write from the heart.

27. The best way to get appro­val is not to need it.

28. Power is never given. Power is taken.

29. Wha­te­ver choice you make, The Devil gets his due even­tually.

30. The har­dest part of being crea­tive is get­ting used to it.

31. Remain fru­gal.

32. Allow your work to age with you.

33. Being Poor Sucks.

34. Beware of tur­ning hob­bies into jobs.

35. Savor obs­cu­rity while it lasts.

36. Start blog­ging.

37. Mea­ning Sca­les, Peo­ple Don’t.

37. When your dreams become rea­lity, they are no lon­ger your dreams.