A Manifesto of Sorts on Achieving Your Dreams, Failing, Being Adaptable, and Going for It

Dear Dreamer and Innovator, 

I haven't really known what to write about specifically due to all the "busyness" of business going on in my own life, but I wanted to touch base with you regardless as a means of reaching out to anybody patiently waiting for a reason to comment or contribute to the blog. FreelanceMikey is the culmination of a decade plus of tinkering, cultivating and conversing with all that has been inside my life: from the grand visions to various intermittent ideas and all points in between. Yet, most of all, everything I do for you and all of our clients is out of the belief in the dreamer, the doer. It is a realization that we have but one life to do everything we want to do in that life and that I want to help you do that thing, the special, superlative, awesome thing inside you and help you to reach for those things which bring you the greatest joy for your creativity and your business. From the screenplay in your heart that you may need some guidance on, or that multilevel website that seems too big to even know where to start—or that small woodworking shop that you want to open on the side because your heart calls you to it—FreelanceMikey was created for and to these ends. It is these things that make us human: they make a strive to be self-actualized and self-made (in so much as we can be in is that no person is living on a vacuum-sealed island away from the oxygen of other humans).

In creating FreelanceMikey, all involved strive to take your ideas and make them less scary and more exciting to you, to inject the verve, passion, creativity, and ingenuity that you feel you have been shouting into a void and to make them real and help you to realize that dream or something even better than your original dream: to boldly go where you haven't gone before in order to know that you can go there and grow even more confident in that dream and in that vision and clarify it.

We created this platform of FreelanceMikey because my colleagues and I wanted to bring more joy to the projects, to the purpose, and to the passions that you feel and give them a boost if they should need it. You've had people tell you all your life that your dream is going to be hard, that it's unrealistic and unmanageable; people have told you that the safe route is the best route, but that route has left you dead inside. Your best dreams keep you up at night with excitement and zest for life! I want to cultivate that zest, that power, and that flame inside of you that refuses to be extinguished. I want to do everything to make you feel that your idea is doable from concept to execution, or if it isn't doable, I want you know that you can fail, try again and try something else. FreelanceMikey aims to show you that, as Twitter co-founder Biz Stone says, your creativity is a renewable resource. What you do and what you want can have an audience and can be viable to a very willing group of people. I believe you were very likely born to be your best you and the only thing that can keep you from it is your willingness to go for it with a sound mind and a courageous heart.

So without further ado, please allow me and all of us at FreelanceMikey to welcome you to your sanctuary, your laboratory,  your motivational center. Welcome to a safe place that encourages experimentation and the willingness to fail and try something new and adapt to whatever comes to you in life—because you only get one life to be awesome, and it helps to have somebody along the way to have your back. Welcome to FreelanceMikey.com!

Keep tinkering,

Michael LaPenna, Founder and CEO