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2008
The business was a disaster and we were forced to close the doors for our production company, Advantage Source, Inc. and our marketing arm Crime Prevention Resources.
I was broke. I guess the charmed life that I had been living was at an end.
One thing I knew, is at my age, and since I wasn’t a spring chicken any more, and since I had nowhere to go I better get a job of some kind. Not much demand for old guys who know how to produce films and books to save people so I decided to fall back on a previous career: real estate. I knew that I could make a good living and I would still be helping people get what they want. So in 2008 I got back my real estate broker’s license and have been doing well.
I spent most of 2008 getting up to speed in real estate. It was good for me because I knew so many people and most of them think highly of me. I started getting calls from friends wishing me well and telling people they knew about me being a real estate agent. So business was good.
I was sitting in my car one day waiting for my wife and mother-in-law to meet for lunch. I was listening to a CD that was telling me to do the thing that I love. I asked myself what it was that I really love and I couldn’t think of anything. I liked real estate but I didn't really love it. I had to really clear my head and open up to my subconscious mind about what I really loved and what I was really supposed to do. The answer came and it surprised me a little. The message was clear and it was to finish the screen play that I had started a few years ago about the naval battle.
I spent the next six months working on the screen play. I worked at night and on weekends. It felt good to be doing it. It was like I was really there. I was afraid when I should have been and I was angry at the right times. I really got into it and had to do several rewrites to get it to where I really liked it. It is ready for its final rewrite this winter. Maybe in 2011 or so it will be ready for me to take it somewhere to sell or produce.