Sunny has asked me:

How far would you go to start a promising new business even though you weren’t 100% sure it was going to fly? Would you sell your house? Relocate your family? Rent a house and and office? Spend a ton of money on repairs and new equipment? Try to make new contacts in a new town? And how would you keep everyone happy while your new business was getting off the ground?

Seeing as I work in a family business and spent my entire work week with my parents and my brother, I’m pretty sure that I wouldn’t leave to start my own adventure somewhere else. I wouldn’t sell my house, and I wouldn’t relocate my family unless I was taking my entire extended family with me. Now, we’ve talked from time to time about moving to an island where the SCUBA divers in the family could take divers out, and the rest of us could run something like a bed and breakfast or a bookstore/coffee shop. I’d be up for that, because it would mean that I’d still be spending my days with the people that I do now, and no one would be left behind to run the family business while I went off on my own adventure. I’m pretty confident that if we were living on an island somewhere warm (and the entire family was there, my parents, my brother and his family and then my family) then it’d be pretty easy to keep everyone happy.

Okay, your turn, what would you do?