The Slight Edge Report Year Eight

[image error]A summary of the whole year is always a big task, even more so, when it was a year like the last one. I’ll try not to drop any ball.

CAREER
Business

Revenue of Resurrecting Books grew by 82% in the last year! I couldn’t believe my eyes when I calculated this number. The average from the last 12 months was higher than the highest value from the previous 12 months! In fact, the monthly revenue was lower than the max revenue in the previous year only three times.

My book sales remained stable. They increased by about 5%, which is a good result in the competitive book market. Quite a lot of this impressive result I credit to the new book, 99 Habit Success Stories, launched at the end of November. We (I co-authored the book) sold almost 1,000 copies in the first month.

The growth of my business didn’t happen in a void. My expenses increased too. But more about it in the Finance part of this report.

Day Job

Working only quarter-time was a huge blessing. It brought more balance into my life. Despite chasing so many opportunities (book writing, book marketing, coaching, speaking, and running my own business) I work relatively few hours -30-50 a week, depending on the week. I can dedicate more time to my spiritual practices, my family, health (I sleep longer!).

Since my wife is forcing me to stick to the day job, I tried to find new responsibilities in the organization, more in line with my newfound side hustle experience. I was denuded of those hopes by the highers that be in the HR department.

Great! The most taxing thing in wearing many hats is the distraction of the mind. Since that happened, I separated myself from my day job completely. I’m doing only the minimum required and I’m looking forward to the moment when my wife will finally realize that my business creates a totally different lifestyle possible for us.

Speaker

I didn’t exactly see that coming. I was interviewed on podcasts multiple times this year. What is more, I rarely looked for an opportunity to be interviewed, people were looking for me, not the other way around.

And I got paid for one gig! Bellevue University hired me to talk about a personal mission statement to their clients’ employees. It took me about a split second to confirm I’m interested