I think that I have reached the point in my life that I think it is time to get serious about becoming self-sufficient. There are aspects in my day job that I like, including the security, however there is not a lot of potential for movement both within the corporate ladder or around the world on work.

A couple of things that I want to do is move around. I want to have the ability to move around on work or move to one place to live for a year and just work there.

I have a few current websites that I am going to become VERY serious about in the coming months. There are exactly 4 including this one. A couple are sites that I have started worked on, let die, then worked on again. I am planning on getting them to the point where they are going strong and making me a steady income. The first target is my forum. I currently have a lot of members that are not active. My plan is to change the front page into a blog targeted on the theme of the forum and build traffic to that. From there I hope to build a readership base that I can then convert to the forum and have community traffic build content for the site.

The next site on my list is the same idea, but it has not been established at all and has very little traffic. It is in a completely different niche and is related to my day-job. My plan here is to build a professional position on the web and work on becoming an EXPERT in particular niches within my profession. From there I hope to be able to gain some consulting work on the side.

Then finially I have this site. I plan on doing more work on this site by the time that summer comes with better articles and status reports on how my experiments are going and give some fancy graphs using Analytics.

I will also be recommending some of the resources that I have used to get my ideas. This is something that is huge, I am going on a trip in a couple of weeks and will be taking a number of books with me that I hope to gain some inspiration from, I will point them your way when I get them