I have had many business ideas. Some never saw the light of day, other have. I've always been an 'ideas man', constantly starting new projects. By far my most successful business venture has been Katanamite Interactive. Though it's been my main source of income, I don't believe it's reached anywhere near it's full potential. Katanamite can be so much more. We can attract more high profile clients, do much more meaningful projects, contribute more to the open source community, provide more jobs and make more money.

I've been holding off publishing this post for a very long time because it's intensely personal. But I've been unusually AWOL around the web and local meetup groups enough that some people are starting to notice. I'm getting a lot of "where are you? I hope you're ok" messages lately, so I thought I'd fill people in. I've also got a few clients that for sure have noticed a slow down in productivity and deserve an explanation. This post was originally twice as long.

I love conferences. As a web developer I spend most of my time indoors by myself. Conferences are a great way to escape the norm, see new environments and socialize with people in real life.

Early tomorrow morning I'll be flying to San Francisco to attend Drupalcon. I'm sure I'll post more about Drupalcon soon, but this posts not about that. It's about packing light.

I wanna see how little I can get away with packing and still be productive. I still have web development work to do in between conference sessions and in the evening when I'm not partying. I'll only be away one week.

So this is my list of stuff:

• Travel size tooth brush and paste
• Deodorant
• A few pairs of underwear and socks

I'm sure no one noticed or even cares, but I've been on a bit of a social media fast in the last little while. Not a complete fast, since I did check in on Facebook and read a few articles from Digg and my Google Reader. But I've resisted posting to my blog, updating my Facebook and Twitter statuses and significantly limited my media consumption. My last Facebook update and the last time I even looked at Twitter was 11 days ago.

I love being motivated and inspired. Who doesn't? Books and movies can sometimes be just the extra push you need to drive you towards your goals. Maybe one day I'll do a roundup of movies and books that inspired me the most. But today I want to talk about short web videos.

What I'm about to do is very scary. I've always been an extremely goal oriented person. Since I was a kid writing out Christmas wish lists for Santa Claus, I've always written down the things I want and the things I plan on doing. It's been a huge part of any success I've achieved in my life thus far. But I've always been private about my dreams and aspirations. I don't know why. Perhaps I fear ridicule. Perhaps it's because of all the nay sayers out there who make a life's work out of dissuading people from pursuing their goals. However I've changed my way of thinking in recent years.