Damon Baehrel has an incredible restaurant.  Some of his guests have waited 1 or 2 years to get a table.  Rumor has it that the Obamas are on the waiting list. His restaurant has one of the highest Zagat ratings in the country (Zagat is a consumer-based restaurant scoring guide).  There is no menu – you get what you get and the price is over $100 per person.  Virtually all of the food served is grown by Damon on his property or sourced from nearby farms.  One enthusiastic diner claims that “there is no food experience like this in the world.”   

And where is this restaurant?  Not Manhattan.  Not Paris.  Not LA. 

It’s in podunk New York…

…in Damon’s basement.

Crazy, right?  The restaurant is called The Basement Bistro and has been wowing foodies since 1990.  It is located exactly in the middle of nowhere in upstate New York, but regardless, they’re mobbed with guests from all over the world.

Damon’s incredible success shows us you can keep it simple, start where you are and still make a big impression.  If you’re doing what you love and you do it well, people will notice!  And with some hard work, you can probably make a living at it.  Damon may be wildly successful, but he’s very busy, too.  As an innovative chef, a caterer, a restaurateur, and gardener, it doesn’t sound like he sleeps much.  But I imagine that he probably loves almost every minute of it.

Damon doesn’t need the perfect location for people beat a path to his door, and you don’t need to wait for the perfect situation to reach for your wildest dreams.  What do you want?  What are your goals?  Have you written them down?  Are you taking little steps toward them each day?  If not, now is always the perfect time...and place...to start.