I mean, I like the band - and I had to title this something, so...

Let's put on one of their songs, then I'll start with the blog. 

 

It's been a while since I wrote a blog. 

I've said it repeatedly over the years, but the fun thing about owning your own website is being able to do whatever you want on it, whenever you want. 

 

And I've apparently wanted to just let it sit for a while. Are we aging like fine wine here at adamjosh.com - or are we just aging? I don't even drink so pardon the booze analogy. 

 

 

Sitting here in the office thinking about my life, about what I want to do with the future - about what I "intend", what I choose to "attract", what I "desire", and what I am "visualizing". 

Lots of buzzwords there, but I think the hippies might have been right, I think there's something to all this spiritual stuff. 

 

So with 2014 well over with now and behind us - maybe we can start moving forward and actually making all of our lives better. 

I have big plans, I have an epic appetite for success in everything I do - if you didn't notice already. 

I want everything and I want it now. 

Easy to say I guess, but we have to be more specific. 

 

Specific is $10M - I want $10M. 

 

A lot of people want money though, and to be realistic - everyone wants to make more money, not less money.

So I want $10M because I want to open a revolutionary Vegan restaurant with a conference centre that will host various speakers and teachers. It will also have a Vegan grocery section, a garden out back, and a place for kids to learn and play. Oh and it also will have a stage, you know - for, um... for me... and for my friends' bands. 

 

Big vision right? 

 

But I'm crazy enough to believe I can do it. 

Some of you may know that I've already helped build one & two restaurants, and then managed them for over a year - so we know that I can do it, that I have the "industry experience", and that I "know all the right people".

I would be lying if I said I don't know how to spend a million dollars. I know how, I know how to do it wisely, and I know how to do it in one day. So when I say that I need $10M, it's not a figure that I haven't calculated and thought about for a while. 

There's no Vegan scene in Niagara. Sure there are a few restaurants, and good ones - but aside from the Market Place meetups and occasional Veg Fests, there really isn't a place or venue you can point at to define the Vegan Community in Niagara. We're spread out... and that's well and good but, but I have a disgusting desire, a burning in my stomach, a righteous persistent vision to unite the community into one place where we can experience things like we do at the various Veg Fests all the time, while introducing new people to a healthy lifestyle, one without the stereotypical compromises that so many think we're all making. 

 

I've already met my Partner and have a few speakers lined up and ready to go. 

Exciting stuff. 

We started drawing up blueprints while we were at the Piebird Vegan Farmstay in Nippissing, Ontario.

 

But you know me, I keep coming back to the money. Having built and managed successful (and currently operating) businesses - I'm not as wide-eyed as my younger peers who are just looking at going into business for themselves would be. 

No, unfortunately I already know many of the recurring costs and overheads of running many different types of businesses, not just limited to the two restaurants. You may have heard of one of my love-children, Anything Incorporated. 

Who doesn't like making money? 

And I've operated my life as a sort of charity (thanks to my previous religious brainwashing) for a long time, and maybe that's wrong - but I feel like I should really take all this experience I've gained over the years and put it to good use. 

 

Are we just here to live and not achieve our dreams? 

Are we here just to work and work away our lives and never help others, never to do something truly beneficial for the next generation? 

 

I don't know about you, but I have a lot of self-respect. I respect myself enough to beat myself up over not working towards achieving my goals. 

Anyway, so this is my vision. This is what I desire and what I am aiming at attracting. 

It's pretty easy to suggest I go to the bank and ask for a business loan. 

Right, and I've already considered that - but this is something I am attempting to do without the banks. 

Maybe it's impossible - maybe I'll eventually have to head down that road, time will tell. 

 

Are you crazy enough to believe with me that we can change the world and wake up a whole bunch of healthy and awesome people currently stuck in unhealthy lifestyles and behaviors?

Share this blog with your friends and follow us on Twitter @pureveganlove

 

We want to bring all the awesome Vegan speakers and bands to Niagara. We want to teach people of all ages about healthy living and eating. We want to show everyone how good PureLove feels. 

 

Will you help?

Thank you in advance, on behalf of all the lives you're truly helping. 

 

- Adam

 

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