Today I cleared out my office so that room could be rented out. Seven years in this house, and seven years in that office. Another sign that time is moving on, whether I like it or not.

It almost feels like graduation, in a way. A world of uncertainty before me, and the feeling that I just closed the book on a chapter of my life that will never return. While I am not selling the house, I’m not sure if I will ever place a desk into that room again.

Times like these always make me feel nostalgic. Life is proven to make things more complicated as you get older, and now just under two weeks shy of my 31st birthday, I feel that more than ever. I have no idea what the future holds, only that I am moving to Austin with hopes of doing something special with my life.

There is a chance that I fall flat on my face and continue to be just as broke as I am right at this minute. However, I do believe that I have what it takes to achieve success. I just have to get myself going again. I need a few financial engines to help jump-start my business operations.

I’ve learned so much by going broke. It has taught me to remain humble about any money that does come my way. It has taught me to prepare for difficult times.

I have put a lot of work into a lot of different things. Countless hours of effort poured into creating an incredible website. The skills I have are unique and hard to find in other places, yet I sit here broke as a joke in my hybrid bedroom office. I can build WordPress themes from scratch and I can’t afford to go out on a Friday night because my business has lost all of its revenue.

These are the harsh realities of entrepreneurship. Having no money will shut you up real quick. The value in Extra Chill is known locally, but otherwise the value is in my own personal skills and resiliency. Nationally, nobody cares about it just yet.

I’m really trying to figure out how to expand the site into more people’s radar. Social media is difficult and it seems like the only route to success these days. I might need to muster up the energy to spend more time posting on Instagram until the account reaches 10,000 followers.

It is growing steadily, but it is certainly not growing fast. It is really hard to make it grow more than we already have. I don’t have the energy to post on there and make all these videos. My skills are more in the backend technical side of things, and the organizational side.

I guess the answer really is to just hire somebody to do that for me. That leads me back to the money problem. Time to get back to work!