Welcome to the Profit by Imagination Small Business Idea and Home Business Idea Blog

Welcome to The Profit by Imagination Blog. Herein you will find posts about ordinary people making a living and a difference with creative, unusual, or simply amazing small business ideas and home business ideas. The individuals profiled in this blog have discovered their profitable passion which drives purpose and meaning in their lives. Some have grown their profitable passion into million dollar small businesses. Others are simply making good money or their small business idea or home business idea is still in it's infancy and growing. All would not trade what they are doing now for anything in the world. They know they are doing what they were born to do. Some are even building their profitable passion around a non profit organization. A profitable passion does not always have to be about making lots of money. It can be more about making a difference in their communities or even the world.

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Grounded Jet Pilot Phillip Donlay Gets Swagger Back with a Profitable Passion Home Business Idea

One might say Phillip Donlay was born to fly. His grandfather was a private pilot and would take Philip up and let him steer the plane at 4 years old. Donlay writes for  the Huffington Post in an article entitled, “Philip Donlay, Former Pilot Turned Author: 'I Wanted My Swagger Back,” “I would sit on his lap and he would let me steer. It would scare me to death, but I couldn't wait to get back up.”

Philip’s passion for flying continued through his teens and he became a licensed pilot at 17 and by the time he was 20, Philip was a co-pilot of a jet plane for a Saudi sheik. That experience gave Donlay valuable jet experience and in 1980, he became a corporate jet pilot – a job he loved and held for 28 years.

During the height of his flying career, Phillip started feeling pains and had trouble sleeping in his mid-twenties. By the time he was in his forties, he suspected something more was going on. As a jet pilot, a physical was required every 6 months. Philip writes, “It finally got to the point where I had to find the answers. I didn't want to hear them -- in my mind, jeopardizing my career and not being able to fly would be the absolute worst thing that could happen to me. As it turned out I did have medical issues. It took my career away from me…I was diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called ankylosing spondylitis at 52 -- it's an autoimmune arthritic condition.”

Phillip Donaly was ultimately grounded and had to reinvent himself. Donaly finally found his profitable passion with a home business idea that would allow him to be productive doing something he loves and allows him to manage his illness.

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Daughter with Downs Syndrome Inspires Mom Connie Feda to Find a Profitable Passion with an Awesome Home Business Idea

While browsing a toy catalog Hannah Feda, 9 years old at the time, told her mother that none of the dolls pictured looked like her. Hannah, now 13, has her wish thanks to her mother.

In an article for the Huffington Post by Jessica Samakow and an accompanying video entitled Dolls For Downs: Mom Connie Feda Creates Dolls Inspired By Her Daughter, Connie Feda explains how Hannah’s observation inspired her to imagine a home business idea that would create and sell a doll that looked like her beautiful daughter. 

Hannah has Downs Syndrome. Connie’s mission and passion is to "represent children with disabilities in an honest, favorable light and give kids with disabilities a friend for life."  The article notes “With the help of sculptor Karen Scott, occupational therapists and other parents of children with Down syndrome, Feda was able to create dolls that physically reflect what her daughter and other kids see in the mirror.”

Shelly Fisher's Modest Home Business Idea Evolves to A Million Dollar Small Business Idea that Saves Lives

Every parent who has ever lost something made with love as a gift from a child knows the panic Shelly Fisher felt when she lost a beaded earring made by her 7 year old daughter while the family was vacationing on the Jersey Shore. What Shelly did not know, is the loss of that earring would result in a profitable passion and a creative small business idea driving an amazing purpose which quite literally saves lives. Actually Shelly stated out with a simple home business idea that evolved into her incredible small business today. 

In an article for the Huffington Post, Fisher tells how she found a bead store on the boardwalk thinking the owner of the store could quickly make a replacement earring and her daughter would not be disappointed with her Mother losing her special gift.

Fishers says,