What's new? 10-10-10 new retirement date
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Zeeba Ville has a new raison d’être.
I have made a goal of retiring from the rat race by 10/10/10. I made an attempt at doing just that back in 2005 with the wild idea of opening a used book store in Montreal. This site was first opened as a way to talk with my patrons from that shop. Here we are in 2009, the shop closed last year, I lost a small fortune but learned a lot. One of the main things that I picked up is that passive income is way better than very active income. The shop was very labour intensive and my family suffered from it. So my new goal involves keeping my 9 to 5 job while building passive income through a variety of websites. I’ll use this platform to keep you all abreast of my activities, see if what I’m trying to do is do-able and provide links to my other projects (both for you to follow the progress of and to help a bit with SEO). I haven’t decided if I should include dollar amounts. Perhaps I will if only to use as personal encouragement. 17 months to replace about $3000 a month in Salary – do-able ?
Here is my list of activities – it will surely evolve.
Zeeba Books – books on or about Montreal & Hockey
The Big Desk – personal blog on all that interests me
The Bookshop Blog – news and opinion on the bookselling world
The Hockey Writers
Hub Pages – short articles on just about anything
Yahoo Store – to be determined, perhaps maritime art ?
And this site Zeeba Ville – to follow all the rest.
I have made a goal of retiring from the rat race by 10/10/10. I made an attempt at doing just that back in 2005 with the wild idea of opening a used book store in Montreal. This site was first opened as a way to talk with my patrons from that shop. Here we are in 2009, the shop closed last year, I lost a small fortune but learned a lot. One of the main things that I picked up is that passive income is way better than very active income. The shop was very labour intensive and my family suffered from it. So my new goal involves keeping my 9 to 5 job while building passive income through a variety of websites. I’ll use this platform to keep you all abreast of my activities, see if what I’m trying to do is do-able and provide links to my other projects (both for you to follow the progress of and to help a bit with SEO). I haven’t decided if I should include dollar amounts. Perhaps I will if only to use as personal encouragement. 17 months to replace about $3000 a month in Salary – do-able ?
Here is my list of activities – it will surely evolve.
Zeeba Books – books on or about Montreal & Hockey
The Big Desk – personal blog on all that interests me
The Bookshop Blog – news and opinion on the bookselling world
The Hockey Writers
Hub Pages – short articles on just about anything
Yahoo Store – to be determined, perhaps maritime art ?
And this site Zeeba Ville – to follow all the rest.
Labels: Hockey Writers, maritime art, rat race, retirement
Great Hockey Site
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Here I go again, bouncing from project to project. Well The Big Desk has been on the back burner since January. I may restart it this week. I've spent the past month starting up a new hockey blog called The Hockey Writers. We have 30 writers posting fresh original content every day on the goings on of the NHL. Wether you want to hear about Sydney Crosby or all about the Colorado Avalanche The Hockey Writers are worth a visit. I'm proud of the site we built and I think you'll like it.
Labels: blogging, Hockey, Hockey Writers, NHL, Sidney Crosby
