Surf Business Update
Earlier this year I had made the decision not to have business goals as part of my list of 303 Goals in 3003 Days. I did this because I wanted the list to be about goals for personal development. For hobbies and interests. For frivolous things that bring me pleasure and joy.
I did this because over the last five (ten?) years all I’ve done is work and feel like I have nothing to show for it. I feel like I have been on this treadmill and anything I’ve earned and learned has been overshadowed by my personal circumstances and global events.
Sometimes life just wears us down, right?
But life isn’t always a clear separation of business, work, personal time, personal interests, friends, and family. They intersect and overlap, and in order for me to achieve goals on a personal level, I still need to have an income and earn a living. So while the focus for my blog is less on the business, I still have made a list of business goals that I’m trying to achieve with Rachid.
There’s no point in having a business if you’re not going to grow it.
“Business growth.”
But coming back to the intersecting facets of my life: since I’ve made the decision to move to Taghazout Bay, Morocco, the importance of developing the business to have a more reliable income has increased in priority. With that, I need to get a Carte Sejour to stay longer periods of time and organize my digital life so that nearly everything is automated while I spend longer and longer away from the UK.
I’m sure this will shift my interests over time, and my list of 303 Goals in 3003 Days will also change.
Again, while my blog won’t focus on me achieving business goals (most of them are tedious anyway), I am, and will be, excited to share major milestones.
Rachid and I have gone from being “self-employed” to registering the surf business as an official company in Morocco. We thought it was going to be a more long winded and intimidating process, but after contacting an accountant, it turned out to be more straightforward.
On a lesser, more dull note: my personal achievement for the business is transfering the domain ownership from the server we had started with to SquareSpace. There was nothing faulty with the server, nor did we ever get bad service, it was in line with the greater effort to organize and consolidate our online presence and digital resources.
Digital nightmare.
While registering the company has the potential to open some doors in terms of travel and other official documentation, it only took us a few weeks to get motivated with that. Transferring the domain has taken me years to initiate and complete. I had this massive mental block about doing it, partly because website building and online marketing had been such a steep learning curve and I feel like I’m still not very good at it, and partly because I thought I needed an expert to do it and I did not want to shell out more money for what was probably a simply task.
So what did I do? I looked it up on YouTube and step by step, I figured it out.
Both achievements were massive for Rachid and myself, and in particular me, since I always feel like a fish out of water whenever I try to do something with the business. They were good reminders that the most difficult part about completing a task is to actually start it. Which leads me needing to remind myself that a part of my personal development needs to continue to not let unfamiliar tasks overwhelm me: I just need to get started, even if it’s only research for the goal I want to accomplish.
