Here I am, laying in bed and thinking about my life, my businesses, and my future. The crazy thing is, I’m not in my bed at all (my own bed at least). I’m living in a guest bedroom in my parents basement.

Wow, I never thought I would say that. As a married man at the age of 26, I feel like I should be so far past this point in my life. The point of struggling to make the bills, working my ass of just to get by and taking charity because I don’t feel like I have any other choice. Don’t think that I am telling you about a sap story of some poor schmuck, far from it. I am letting you in on a piece of my wife’s and my life (and what some people get to go through before they get what their working for).

Did I just say GET to go through? Yes, and it wasn’t a slip of the fingers while typing. I said it because no matter what happens to Shawna and I, we are still alive! By going through hardships, trials, and struggles we become stronger and are able to handle anything else life throws at us (in our business and/or personal lives).

Back to why I’m not laying in my own bed. Our parents made us a financial offer of sorts that was extremely generous on their part (and they will not have any monetary gain). They see our lives and what happens with our successes and failures and offered us the opportunity to live in their basement and save the money we would have spent on our own utilities and mortgage (about $700 a month in savings). At this time in our lives where we are spending every minute of every day (or close to it) trying to improve ourselves and our businesses, so we need to take advantage of help when it’s offered.

This was no easy decision. Our business sense said "uh, ya…take the offer, you will save about $700 every month" and the personal side said "What, are you some kind of loser, moving back in with your parents?". The status quo says that when someone lives with their parents, they are on a fast track to going no where.

For my wife, this change is more than just living with the in-laws, it is leaving her first home to live with a family she didn’t grow up with, in their basement! It’s not her Home! Yet, she is willing to risk immediate comfort and security for our future growths and successes. [that's my type of women]

This is not only a difficult transition for us, even though my parents offered this to us they will now lose their basement and have 2 new roommates that they don’t even get rent from! What a huge sacrifice to help out their children. Thank you both very much!

Needless to say, we are still adjusting to all of the circumstances. We are working for everything that we will someday have, even though it is uncomfortable at moments. How else can we build our back story to tell our kids someday?

By us choosing to push past the status quo, we are able to focus on what WE need to be the best we can. I challenge you to break down any status quo in your life that might be holding you back from being the best you can.

Have a great day!

~Chais Meyer

Okay! I am getting into:

1) Building my own blog/websites

2) Learning a little more about the tech of the web.

These two things are one in the same for this post (If your not interested in this stuff right now, you might want to consider keeping it in the back of your mind for future knowledge). I am setting up a website for Computer Hardware, Inc. and therefore I have to learn about stuff I didn’t know about before on the web.

Below (at the bottom of the page) are two links that will guide you through (on an apple computer) setting up MYSQL , PHP , and WordPress on your computer.

"Why would I want to do all of this geeky stuff?" you might ask. Well, if you install MYSQL and PHP on your computer and you want to design your own website, you can run your website on your computer as if it’s online. Meaning…You can create, edit, set updates to your website without internet access and without the need to have your actual website down while you’re "Under Construction".

There you go, I’ve done it, after a couple of hours worth of work. It should take you a little less time following these links if you know the basics about Apple computers and basic web editing (if you want a good place to start go here or here if you like video demonstrations better).

Here are the links:

Getting Started: http://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/

Help with setting up your config file:  http://wordpress.org/support/topic/160658

If you only want to get MYSQL and PHP set up, follow the getting started link and just go to the WordPress section and you’re done. I don’t claim to be a genius when it comes to building websites or anything techy, but I will try to help out if I can (since it is fresh in my mind and all). Just shoot me a message in the comment section, and I will see what I can do.

I hope you push yourself to grow daily (in every area of life), have an awesome day!

~ Chais Meyer

For everyone that might be interested in what new business owners do in a day, check out our calendar page .

We have been wanting to do this for a long time. It’s something that we needed to do to help show everyone what goes on in our lives. We are not famous, and we don’t have our own TV Show or anything, we just don’t think some people realize what it takes to start your own business (and how much time is spent on non business stuff, like earning money to pay the bills).You might be thinking…Doesn’t your business pay your bills? Why do you have to earn money elsewhere? Well…Not all businesses make a profit from day one, some of them takes weeks, months, or years. Ours…well, I’m not sure which one they fall into yet.

This is not what every business owner’s schedule looks like…just ours at the moment. Take a look and let us know if you have any thoughts. Oh ya…have an awesome day!

~ Chais Meyer

I’m setting up twitter to link with my blog, if you are interested in having more of a following, go to www.twitter.com to create an account. After that go to www.twitterfeed.com to link up with your blog.
Enjoy
~ Chais Meyer

P.S. – If you want to start following my twitter feed, it is here http://twitter.com/chaismeyer

I am building a page on our blog that will have our personal and business calendars on it. Everything thing that we do, will be listed on the calendar with full details. It is an inside to our lives that you may want to see if your thinking about starting your own businesses.

Side Note: We are at one of the lowest points financially in our life that we have ever been in. We are working together to bring ourselves closer and add to our bill account (it is actually our bank account but it feels like all the money we make anymore goes to bills). This is one of the most trying times in our lives and we are growing and learning so much from it. We would not be able to grow as much mentally, spiritually, in our relationship if we weren’t living through these struggles right now.

I will post when we have our calendar up and running. Hopefully it will be very soon!

Have an Amazing day and be the best you can be (don’t compare yourselves to others, push yourself, for yourself).

~ Chais Meyer

For those people that like to mess with design. I made a vector skull that includes one 6 layer skull and a few individual pieces. Completely vector in .eps and .ai cs3 formats. Use how you want, it is free for you to use in personal use or commercial.

Click here to download it.

Have a great day!

~ Chais Meyer