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But it felt great! Anyway, we wrote our plan and went out for dinner on February 14th (aww a better date) .

Sorry about the red wine stain and the cat dog! I want to do something I love I want to work from home or a place that I choose I want a commute that involves the kitchen and saying hi to our dog I want to have time to ride, hike and take photos every day (when it s light) I want to be able to see my family I want to travel to amazing places and do fun things I want enough money to secure my future I want some fun toys really fun toys One of the strangest things was that half our friends laughed and the other half said we were mad.

And our friends? They don t laugh anymore, they always check out our new businesses and some are even running their own businesses with We Dared To Dream A few years later .

My friends are dead jealous and I m expecting a baby as well! Lara You too can start a money making business this way Here s what we learned in those first few few weeks.

You two are crazy, you ve got decent jobs, how are you going to start out on your own? You ve never done it before.

No we didn t propose! But we did agree to follow our dreams.

I don t want to travel in economy to boring places for work I don t want to worry about expenses autopay from now on! I don t want to be told what to do.

I don t want to be always saying sorry to my family for not being there.

We kept doing an hour here and there and started our new business.

We stared at each other and said yes.

On June 6th we triumphantly jumped off the treadmill into a new life.

I don t want to get bored by office politics.

I don t want to work in an office with bad lighting, AC and shut windows.

We d drunk coffee, had a load of fun, dreamed and risked nothing.

We got the waiter to take our photo (when you join you can see that photo).

I don t want to follow company rules and that includes dress codes.

Now Jon has paid for her house.

Now we have many of them.

They don t say that anymore.

That first check arrived on April 9th and we we knew it was going to work.

Claire & Jon helped me start an on line marketing business on my PC from my condo.

You ve Probably Wanted To Make A Change As Well We felt miserable about that lot, so we grabbed another bit of paper and had fun with what we did want.

I don t want to feel like this is a waste of my time.

A few hours here, a few hours there and in 10 more weeks, after way too much Peet s coffee we had tested our idea.

I did it for a few hours each week and then gave up my day job.

One thing always remains the same we plan, develop, launch and manage each one using our same system and it works Again and again I was bored with my job and knew little about the internet.

You will be shocked how soon cash will flow in You don t need to know what business you want to start You don t need to give up your current job You don t need to spend your savings we didn t You don t need to have run your own business before You don t even need to be experts....

Stop dreaming they kept saying.

You may have seen our pictures in The New York Times or on countless TV shows when they feature one of our companies Even today you may have been to one of our web sites some have six million users It s possible that you ve been at a conference or event where we have spoken You may have been working at one of the Fortune 500 companies we have helped You might even have worked indirectly for Jon when he ran one of the most famous brands in the US Years later that first business that began in June has changed our lives.

I now earn more than my day job and work only a few hours each day.

That was not on our list of things we wanted to do.

Jon s mother She said it during that holiday season.

My boss still seemed happy with me in my day job .

After a few hours each week and we came up with an idea.

We had worked a few hours and were realizing our dreams.

It was now December 9yeah, we were 4 weeks late).

It s on our wall as well.