Today was a good day. It was the first day, post-MT, where I felt a huge rush of productivity - the first "full" day I've worked.

I hired a career consultant to rework my resume and to help me figure out how I want to market myself to potential employers. Although I feel my passion is in starting my own company, I want to be on the lookout for good opportunities that I can learn from. Today was a phone interview day with the consultant - we talked through my work history and he's polishing up the resume now. I'm excited about the output - I'm pretty sure I'm one of those guys that always looks better on paper ;)

After that was a quick chat with a Quickbooks consultant. I'm doing everything around rykorp super legitimately. I plan on growing this business very aggressively at the end of this year, and I want to make sure I have all the "corporate" things done right so I don't have to come back and try to fix this later. The QB consultant is pricey ($100/hour for a 3-hour minimum block!), but I'll get all the training I need on Friday. Yay!

I finally got my official business debit card today - and I moved some money from the business account into my personal account. Intermingling my personal/business finances has created a bit of a mess which I've been actively trying to clean up.

Met up on another project to finalize the development plan. Got the OK, so I hit up the outsourced developer to finalize his contract and to start setting him to work. This project is my current passion project - something I'm doing for myself. While it lacks the grandiose vision of my other projects, it is far more refined and has greater commercial potential than any of my other projects. I'm really excited to see this come to fruition.

After that was a meeting with the guy who did my logo to pass on two additional projects to him. I'm going logo crazy!

It's 1am, and I haven't worked this late in a while. But I'm feeling the creative rush again. Already I have another idea for a project I want to pursue later on!

I'm loving it - the passion and drive is coming back. And that drive has been missing for a while... even before my departure from MT ... I felt like I was a zombie since last September.

And that Nicki Minaj song really summarizes my feelings right now: "I wish I could have this moment for life... for life. This is my moment, I just feel so alive. Alive... alive."

Tomorrow is a travel day up to Irvine to see friends. But the drive will be good for me to finalize the messaging around rykorp so I can launch the site and talk about some of the reasoning behind it on here!