Micro-Essay: Start Up
Boom, Boom, Boom, my creative fist hammers the ground to show me a new potential business idea, and it is completely a brand new area for me. To start a co-working space. Where I live the community of people travel to and from work on one highway to get here, while others work remotely, and locally. The local area within a ten-mile radius has two coffee shops, a library, and Barnes and Noble. The closet co-working space is fifteen miles away. These places are the only few spots to find quiet outside of a home office. Over the years, my brain and heart have been working hard and learning a new craft which is to be more creative. If you have been following since before then, you know the path here turned out to be unexpected to an extent. My human design by nature is to create things, get them started, oversee them, and remove myself where I am not the manager of them anymore. Maybe that is the great thing about writing and storytelling due to their similarities. I create and move forward never being stuck on the same project over and over, again.
Let me conduct a u-turn and get back to this idea of a co-working space. Since moving back to SoCal, my workspace is spent inside coffee shops, Barnes and Noble, a library, and sometimes outside at a park bench or panic table. Yet, there is always something missing, and this is my own space, a space that allows me to disappear mentally and into the astroplanes of creativity giving me the ability to focus more efficiently, tapping into my flow zone. The idea of renting out a spot that had a couple of offices has been orbiting inside me for a few months now, craving a place to create and separate work from home, plus it would give my wife the space to do so as well, instead of inside out bedroom where she seats in a corner and works from all day. This can be limiting for many others with similar setups who can benefit from a new environment, change of scenery, and potentially disconnect from home life completely during those blocks of work.
A big part of my morning is spent inside a coffee shop, at times it can be limiting to a specific amount of activities that are accomplished based on being in a public setting. Podcasts are hard to perform without a quiet and private space, and meetings over zoom, google meetings, and Microsoft teams are at times a ball ache, plus it is hard to drop into a meeting and be fully invested at that moment, plus small business meetings are hard without the right tools and environment. The idea would be to build a community of like-minded individuals who want to be effective professionals and share similar values. The space is small, no more than seven-hundred square feet, and needs a pimp my crib makeover, it needs work and love. The great thing about that process of giving it work and love that it deserves, transforms energy for those who come to use it. As a person whose been working remotely for almost a decade, there are many skills, tips, and tricks that I have learned and kept. These times and experiences give me the confidence to offer classes and insights to be better high-performing individuals in their professional fields.
One thing that has been shown to me since getting into the creative landscape is when an idea comes into you and wants to channel through you, and you choose to ignore it, or it will pick someone else. This has happened to me plenty of times and for good reason but others because I was too afraid. That isn’t the case for this idea, it would be my place to create, work from, plus offer a service to others who might need it as well. In today’s world, this type of business venture has shown to be very successful and unsuccessful. The pattern for those who failed lacks uniqueness and heart, and if you truly know me, uniqueness runs free inside me inside my heart.
