When you don’t have a lot of money to build your dreams. It doesn’t mean you can’t have them. It just means you will have to work harder, compromise more & sacrifice the luxuries, to get there. You have to think outside the box & in my case, You might even have to be willing to live in one. 🙂
I am ready.. I have mentally prepared myself for a camping adventure. I also have to put things into perspective. I really am not sacrificing too much, to meet my next goal.
My biggest sacrifice is, I am now giving up, almost the last square footage in my home to my dream. I have found a way, to keep full access to my kitchen & my laundry room, which are very important to me. But my bedroom/ living room will soon be my garage, which has already been converted and is half renovated, with its own private entrance. My biggest and funniest sacrifice, is I will be giving up my access to all the bathrooms, in my home. Well partially.
I say “Calm down”, to all the crusaders of comfort, who think I am crazy. I have thought this threw. I can take showers in the bathrooms at my house, In between guests checking in and checking out. I can also shower at work & at any of my many friendly neighbors, whom are on board with my adventure and support me 100%. Even though they think I am crazy. Lol
I have great plans to make the fanciest camping bathroom, you have ever seen. It will be located In the storage area of the garage. When it is finally revealed… You will be happily surprised to see how amazing it is.
I will be giving up my bed, one more time & will be temporarily back on the couch, that will be hauled out to the garage to make room for the little airbnb suite. Though I will miss my new bed, I am ok with this sacrifice. It will be completely worth it. It’s actually the most comfortable couch & with every night That passes, I will be one night closer to achieving my 2nd financial goal. That makes me smile.
In the next few of weeks, I will be boxing in the living room and creating my second airbnb. I won’t lie and tell you that I’m not a little nervous. It’s a big jump, but it’s the step I need to take, to build my dream and make my property pay for itself as well as my life. I can no longer be attached, to the square footage of my house. I must stop thinking of it as, only my home. I am building a business & home for many. I am creating a relaxing environment for my guests and more opportunities for them to come stay at my place. What a an amazing thing, to be able to do.
It’s a big dream. I envision 5 rentable places that are all interconnected with locking doors. My guests will be able to rent one or all five, whatever they need.
I just need to push up my sleeves and get ready to push this train up the tracks, a little further. I expect the unexpected & know that because the city, may not completely agree with my dreams, I might have to compromise. But, I believe that everything that is suppose to happen will. If it’s meant to be, the barriers in life, will just magically move out of the way, as I reach them. If it’s not suppose to happen, then I will make another road, that takes me on the scenic route.
I am hoping, this stage of renovation is a little, physically, easier on me. The last year about killed me. Lol
The last couple of months, I have been in a work for food trade, with the neighborhood handy man. He has agreed to help me with some of my jobs, if I would share the food I cook. When I cook. He hates fast food & loves my cooking. I of course jumped on that deal & have been throwing plates of food at him ever since. Eat up!!! I need a wall built. 🙂
“Thankyou Granny for all the years you let me help you in the kitchen”.. They are finally paying off.
As if this deal wasn’t a miracle in itself. He now has a girlfriend, who helps him with his jobs, while running her own business, cleaning and managing airbnb properties. (Lucky me). She also loves my cooking & our food trade arrangement so much, that she wants to participate. All I have to do, is send over an extra plate and she will help with my renovations & manage / clean my places, when I go out of town. What a blessing!!!
At this point I have decided, my cooking can be a commodity trade.
I decided I need to up the game & Agree to feed the world, for building & food supplies. Just bring me a 2×4, a piece of sheet rock, a box of texture, a window, a slider door, a freezer of meat. what do you have?? Maybe you have a service you want to trade….I’ll feed you meal, let’s make a deal… Lol. Unless your picky, then you can cook your own dang meals. 🙂 Ain’t no one got time for that.
It never hurts, to dream up inventive ways to trade services for goods. It’s tax free and generally rewarding to multiple parties. I love money!!! I would love to line my pockets in it & someday I will.
But happiness comes first in my book. I can’t let my lack of finances stop me from being happy or reaching for greater things in life.. I don’t believe I have to be the richest, to be the greatest. I can have the greatest success in life, by working hard & never giving up on the idea, that I can have better things and bigger dreams, if I am willing to reach for them.
if you have dreams, you need to speak them out loud. Say it!! Tell the world what you want.
I mentioned a food trade as a joke & now I have 2 people who think it’s the best idea ever.
Seriously…. I joked about it on a post a few weeks before. My 2 neighbors, did not read it, nor did they know I said it. But, because I put the energy out there & I fed my handyman, while he worked and sent food over when I had extra. ( because that’s just what I do.)
He then said, “I will give you hours in labor, if you keep sending me food. ”
I didn’t ask, I just sent the energy & it just happened.
Speak & pray your heart out loud & let it be heard. Say what you want out of life & take action to get it. Don’t be lazy… If it’s suppose to happen, it will come to you. Say it and Pray it!!! Then be willing to work your ass off, to get it.
Don’t give up!!! Keep trying,,, Keep believing,, See it,,, Dream it,,, live it…everyday!!!
Get up and Reach!!! You aren’t dead yet!!!
Debbie Smalley (Deb’e)
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