Keith Goodrum

In his post titled Why I Decided Not To Be Lawyer.  Ricky tells about how his business has bought him true freedom.  He talks about first time he went to sleep and woke up $1000 richer.  That transformed his mindset from trading dollars for hours to earning money beyond his efforts, or pressence.

I find it interesting that people view a j.o.b. as a secure source of income.  In my book, that is a false sense of security.  Having nearly 100% of your income dependent on one source is scary to me.  I can remember when the day it finally hit me that a j.o.b. was a not a secure source of income.  One day the company I was working at started calling department managers into the human resource managers office.  My turn came, and 5 minutes later my income went from 100% to zero.  I got laid off, because they were having a bad year.

On the way home I resolved that I would not let anyone have that much control over my income ever again.  I had to go out and find another job, but I started a business on the side to start to gain control back.  I took on the view that a job was another customer, and started measuring what percent of my income each customer provided.  My goal became to not let anyone customer be responsible for more than 10% of my income.  And a couple years ago I reached that goal. 

Most people I talk to think it’s strange that I find it scary to have that much of your livelyhood controlled by one source.