Nick Is a Tool · Gut check

Ready to take the leap?

Comfortable is a moving target, and it moves away from you. The question is not “am I ready.” It is “what would I have to believe to go now.” Run the numbers, check the boxes, and write down what is actually stopping you.

From Chapters 5 and 30 of Picklefarts, and Checklist 1

Sample loaded: a designer with a day job and a growing side business. Replace it with yours.

The money

What it costs to live, what you have saved, and what the side business already brings in.

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Mortgage, food, insurance, the truck. All of it.
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Not retirement. Money you could actually spend.
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Be honest. Start conservative.

Checklist 1: before you start the business

If you cannot check the first one, stop there and go work on it. Everything else can be figured out on the way.

What is stopping you?

Write down every reason you have not started, one per line. All of them.

Do it.

Monthly gap after you quit
$0
Months your savings cover it
0
Your runway, one box per month

Close these first

    Your list

      The list is not crazy. It is just full of excuses. Everyone who takes the leap says the same thing afterward: I wish I would have done this earlier.

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