The Glass Is Always Half Full

Things have been really busy this year. A 5 month old baby, 2 teenagers, 1 pre-teen and a nine year old keeps me busy and happy. Molly, our baby girl has been a tremendous addition to our family. Her favorite thing to do is to smile and she does it a lot.

Business has been busy. New challenges and new opportunities have presented themselves. I just did an interview with Fortune Small Business, a site that hangs off of CNNMoney.com. It was an interesting topic and hope to share more about that soon. I have an interview with Connecticut Public radio coming up in a week. The topic is an excellent one.

If that is not enough, I have launched an experimental business. It is part of my ongoing study of the business potential of the internet. I may dedicate some posts to my new stream of income.

My oldest son is beating me in overall Adsense revenue now. He has a great niche and I am working with him to build his business.

What are you doing new this year?

If you do not have a new project, why not?

Opportunity is out there even during the incessant calls for a recession, the sub prime mortgage fiasco, and the crumbling credit situation. These things are cyclical. I am still invested in emerging markets. I ended the year at 30% return from my investments in China and other markets.

Although I lost 15% the first month off the year as Wall Street plummeted, I gained half of it back already in the first two weeks of February. I expect to regain all of the loss and then keep an eye out on the Asian markets.

Don’t run scared. Yes there are job cuts, but remember December was a record month for new jobs. Even as jobs are being eliminated, new ones are being created. I do not see a major crunch for IT on the horizon. I suspect IT will continue to grow as the labor pool shrinks and companies start waking up and realizing their offshore outsourcing is not always, if ever, a good idea.

You need to always see the glass half full. Lack of optimism and hope is apathy. Apathy is dangerous to your career, your family, and your health.