I don't personally make productivity a virtue, but I do love a day where I feel fulfilled with my efforts.

For example! Today I got some work done on my business plan, applied to be on city council, researched small business grants, loans, and tax credits, and looked for advice on selling photos. That feels like a big step closer to a bunch of goals! Oh!! And I finished the first two modules on business law for entrepreneurs in an online class I'm taking. I found an interior designer certification program that automatically gets me in good with the state if I pass, and is pretty affordable all things considered (certainly more affordable than going back to grad school for architecture), and learned what I would need to do to become a certified architect without going to grad school (which the interior design certificaion would help me with)!

I'm very excited to be starting my own business. I have a good idea that meets a local need, and everyone I've spoken to is all-in on it - even people I've just met who have NO reason to butter me up or protect me feelings. Nothing to it but to do it. I'm also positively giddy about the prospect of living a life without a "proper" job. Why it took me so long, I may never know - but it also doesn't matter. I can't go back and change it, I can only work with what I have now. I can only be where and when I am now.