Yesterday morning on my way to work I asked for a sign that The Playground would happen, that I would be able to get out of this crap ass job that I have and finally be happy in my work life. Well, the first sign that I thought I got was my horoscope that said something about if you’re dedicated to it, you can make it happen. Then I read the email I got from my sister for my birthday (I couldn’t read it till yesterday ’cause I couldn’t access work email at home for some reason), and she said (amongst other things) that she was proud of me, etc. But I think the real sign was when my mom came over to show me her outfit that she’d worn yesterday. We went shopping and I picked out this pink skirt that she normally wouldn’t have chosen, and she ended up getting a ton of compliments all day at work & school for it. So anyway… she was telling me how she was talking to her trainer during her work out about my idea for The Playground. The trainer thinks it’s an insanely great idea and was like why not do it as a non-profit? And my mom was like yea, I should bring that up to her again. So she did and making The Playground a non-profit is not what I wanted to do ultimately but in the grand scheme of things this is the easiest, fastest, best way to make this thing happen.

By my mom bringing this up again it just made me realize that this was what I needed to do or else it’s going to take so long for me to get my fico scores up, get collateral, all the crap they scrutinize when you’re looking for business loans. And there are a lot of pros of going non-profit. The tax breaks, the discounts, the ability to get free money for the start up. Then I wouldn’t have to worry about paying people back, but just getting the place up and running and working properly. So now I have something to focus on, something to work on and keep my mind off of all this food stuff. Which as time goes on becomes less and less a huge issue in my head. It’s still hard, don’t get me wrong, but I’m not as emotional about it.

Tonight I have a hair appointment, which’ll be good and then I gotta go to Barnes & Noble to get a book on non-profits. I also need to start looking for foundations that give money to ideas like mine. Hopefully it won’t be a depressing process.

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