My Life

These days, my life revolves around my work at Center For Sharing, Kayla, Levi and Jacqui. It seems there is never enough time to do it all, considering all the travel and such...however I try to make the most of the time I do have with Levi, Kayla and Jacqui.

Now that Levi is in Spokane, I do get to see him more often...which is great...when he was in Phoenix and Seattle, it a little more work to get there.

On the work side, I just returned from a trip to Hyderabad India. I will post a report on that in a few days. The trip before India was one to Muskegon Michigan the first part of October. I went to a conference of Partner's Worldwide, Partners Worldwide ...it is a non-profit that connects successful business people to aspiring entrepreneurs in developing countries. There, I learned of a new concept called, "mircofranchise". Successful business people putting together small simple businesses, like selling milk or reading glasses that can sustain families in developing areas through a franchise system. The idea is great because you know it will work if you follow the guidelines because it has worked elsewhere.

Using the bicycle to sell milk, they said a person that buys the franchise can often pay off the bike in one week...how great is that!...then the franchise holds 10% of their earning so when and if they leave the business, they then get that 10%, which in some cases has saved them enough money to buy a taxi. Pretty cool, I think!