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Time Is Relative

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It is exciting to plan big events. What I am proposing here could be an important life changing event, but you don’t have to commit to anything unless you see the sense in it, understand it and have the determination to do it. This kind of self education can easily become a career. It did for me.

For our first adventure in Home Building let’s rough out a time budget. I use two years as a time frame and separate that into one year of preparation and one year of actual building. Since time is relative, your two years may be longer or shorter than mine. Time will tell.

During the first year you will be rearranging your life to focus on the many jobs and details necessary to get you to the actual point of building. In later posts I’ll give you suggestions on how to manage money, subjects to study, basic tools you will and won’t need, how to find the right property and deal with bureaucracy. I will also discuss options for customizing your ‘curriculum’ during Year One, however long it is.

Year Two involves putting what you have learned to use by doing a project. I will show you four different projects ranging from hard to harder to very hard to hardest. (I hope you weren’t expecting this to be a cakewalk.) I will tell you lots more about Year Two later on.

Next post I’ll talk about money. While you’re waiting, look over your vast assets and figure out what you have available to put into this project. I think I can show you ways to enhance your finances that you might not have noticed.

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