It’s both cheecho. Especially in these early months, I am struggling more with personal issues, like motivation and managing my time, and less on the more practical issues of starting a business.

The biggest source of inspiration for me right now is Steve Pavlina. If you haven’t read any of his stuff, do so right now. His posts are insightful and in-depth. He approaches blogging like he is a genius that is making a living from his blog. There is a good reason for this, as he does have smarts and he is making major cashola. Another bonus is I am sure that you could read his site for a decade and never come across the term cashola.

• I am easily distracted. I tend to drop ideas before I complete them.
• I procrastinate.
• I am too timid. It takes a HUGE amount of effort to get me to act.
• I can be antisocial.

• I have great web development skills. I dig xhtml, css, php and mySQL.
• I am a pretty good web designer.
• I have a self-deprecating sense of humor.
• I am a decent photographer.
• I love brainstorming original business ideas.

People that have jobs or businesses that provide services are cuckoo, cuckoo for crazy puffs.

I was talking to my barber the other week about his recent vacation. He told me that he doesn’t even like taking one. After working as a barber for 20+ years he has found that if he takes a week off, people just wait a week to get their haircut. He knows that any time off means that he will have twice as much work when he comes back.

While I realize that not all service jobs are as literal as this… cutting a head of hair and getting 10 bucks, it is fair to generalize that service jobs do take more direct work or at least management than other jobs.

I love the concept of creating something once and re-selling it multiple times. Microsoft has made billions of boatloads of cash using this model. 37 Signals is a more recent, less evil example of a company that uses this model and applies it over the web. That same analogy also could be made in the publishing arena. With books representing Microsoft and blogs representing 37 Signals.

Right now we all have a tremendous opportunity to create, sell, distribute original ideas and products that have the potential to make us each our own personal boatload of bucks.

So come on kids, stop cutting hair and lets go make an AJAX cookbook.

After I think of a business idea, one of the first thing I do is I check for available domain names. For me, finding a great domain name is one of the most fun parts of starting a project.

Lately I have been using NameWidget (or instant domain search) to do all my searches. These new AJAX search tools are by far the fastest and simplest way to check to see if a domain is available. They are also really really fun to play around with. You enter in a search term and you get immediate feedback.

Did you know that flanface.com is available? Can you believe that?