Some days I feel like I am metaphorically asking "Why am I following this guy Moses to the Promise Land?" When I know there was fish to eat back in Egypt. But I'm making a transition from one system to another.

Today is such a remarkable day. About an hour ago I was making rainbow speckled pancakes on a hot skillet when I accidentally dropped an ice cube into the pan. Then the thought hit me and I slowly looked up with the most amazing idea for a painting. It will be a few years before I can get to that piece. Thank you Norway!

In high school a friend of mine that loved the outdoors taught me how to start a camp fire. Since then I've probably made 100 camp fires over my life time so far. Its really easy when you think about building it up from dry grass/paper, to small kindle sticks, to branch sticks, to big logs.

I've made camp fires with just a magnify glass with the heat of the sun to start the fire. That works but its slow. Normally I use artificial starters like matches or a lighter, or even gasoline to get a big start. Even with the quick blaze of a gasoline, you still need the proper set up of small to larger pieces of wood.

A business can be just like that. You do need the proper basic set up, and you can build it up slowing with a natural fire from the sun. Or you could also help give the business a boost with an artificial start. (I'm not talking about getting a loan)

I'm going to start a real fire and in the fastest way I know how to give it some early wins.

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Well a lot of things fell into place this last short week. I once heard of a story about a man who build a canning factory to can peas. It took so much hard effort to buy the land, to secure the money, to construct the building, to hiring the people, to finding the distributors, to stocking the materials, to making the machinery, to producing the product and then trucking the cans of peas.

It might of seem like a lot of work and incredible odds to finally see that first can of peas come off of that assembly line, but it's not about that one can of peas, its about the many cans that will follow. It's about getting systems in place.

I think I'm open for business now.

Working on the website. It's not going to have any official launch because its been a work in progress. Probably always will be. www.knoxlar.com