diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index eb7ad58..c41eb61 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-
+auth.tfvars
+account.json
 # Created by https://www.gitignore.io/api/terraform
 # Edit at https://www.gitignore.io/?templates=terraform
 
@@ -39,4 +40,4 @@ override.tf.json
 account.json
 
 # Default vars
-*.auto.tfvars
\ No newline at end of file
+*.auto.tfvars
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51a8942
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# gcp-101
+Basic usage of Terraform with GCP
+
+Step 1: Sign up for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) at cloud.google.com, using your personal GMail account, and [create a "Project" in GCP.](https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-organization#creating-projects)
+
+Do you know what a Project is? It's a way to organize various GCP resources or something. Doesn't matter that much for this. 
+
+Step 2: Hunt around for the project_name, project_id, billing_account, and org_id, according to this recursive documentation (which refers you to more documentation): 
+
+https://cloud.google.com/community/tutorials/managing-gcp-projects-with-terraform#set_up_the_environment
+
+Step 3: Rename the Terraform Variables file, named terraform.auto.tfvars.example to terraform.auto.tfvars, and keep it in the same folder as main.tf. 
+
+Step 4: Edit the file named terraform.auto.tfvars, and replace the default values with the stuff you hunted down in your Google Cloud account. 
+
+Step 5: Run `terraform init`
+
+Step 6: Run `terraform plan`
+
+Step 7: Run `terraform apply`
+
+Step 8: Run `terraform destroy` to destroy all the GCP stuff you created. 
diff --git a/main.tf b/main.tf
index 5c2928b..dbfe1bc 100644
--- a/main.tf
+++ b/main.tf
@@ -10,15 +10,8 @@ variable "project_services" {
   ]
 }
 
-resource "google_project" "main" {
-  name            = "${var.project_name}"
-  project_id      = "${var.project_name}"
-  org_id          = "${var.org_id}"
-  billing_account = "${var.billing_account}"
-}
-
 resource "google_project_services" "main" {
-  project  = "${google_project.main.project_id}"
+  project  = "${var.project_id}"
   services = "${var.project_services}"
 }
 
diff --git a/variables.tf b/variables.tf
index 3744c70..525e8dc 100644
--- a/variables.tf
+++ b/variables.tf
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
-variable "console_num_instances" {}
+variable "console_num_instances" { default = 1 }
 
-variable "project_name" {}
+variable "project_name" { default = 'myrandomprojectname' }
 
-variable "billing_account" {}
+variable "project_id" {  }  
 
-variable "org_id" {}
+variable "billing_account" {  }
 
-variable "region" {}
+variable "org_id" {  }
+
+variable "region" { default = 'us-west2' }
+
+
+##  Note: These can also be defined as follows: 
+##  export TF_VAR_my_variable_name="top-secret-value"
+##  For example, TF_VAR_account='{"type": "service_account",  "project_id": "unique-highway-237219"...
+##  Would correspond to the account variable
diff --git a/versions.tf b/versions.tf
index d57db3e..f45b4be 100644
--- a/versions.tf
+++ b/versions.tf
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 provider "google" {
   version     = "2.3"
-  credentials = "${file("account.json")}"
-  project     = "johnny-carlin"
-  region      = "us-central1"
+  credentials = "${file("account.json")}" 
+  project     = "${var.project_id}"
+  region      = "${var.region}"
 }
 
 provider "null" {