Do you ever pray?

While I don't consider what I do as praying...I think of it as more as meditating. I try to spend at least a half hour in the morning and half an hour in the afternoon meditating. Taking my time working things out and looking toward the future or into the past to see if I can find a better way to do things.

When I have some serious things to consider or I'm looking for answers, meditation seems to help. Most recently I have been meditating on my immediate future and my long term goals in life and how they correlate. And I have found responses coming from all around me. One thing I've always done is look for the answers to my questions from other people. Not by asking them questions but to listening to what they say and how they say it and how those words reflect on my situation. Some might call that answers from God. I don't know, but I am very aware of hearing those responses from people when I'm working through something.

My wife and I have spend countless hours over the past few days discussing what she wants and what I want and what's best for our kids. While nothing is for certain, we are thinking about calling an end to our business and selling off our inventory. Probable not all the inventory but the larger items...the ones that cost the most in insurance and focusing more on games and other items that either need very little insurance or items you could probable get away with having no insurance.

While I will always have the dream and a long term goal of owning a business, the inflatable business, while it has been decent to us, does not look like the business to own in the long run due to high insurance costs and with the weather effecting the business the way it does. We lost or didn't make several thousand dollars we could have this year due to the weather. And just imagine if next year has even more rainy weekends.

And with all that being said, other changes could be in the mix as well.

AJ