When did things start? That is a question that\nI have pondered more than once over the last few years. What started when I was\na little kid watching his father hone his craft has, over the last fifty-eight or\nso years, turned into a life-long passion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or is it a \u2013 my \u2013 purpose? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like many things in life, your motivating\nfactors go through their own evolution, adoption, and maturing processes. What\nyou start out with does not end up like what you envisioned it would, and that\nis good. Good because we adapt, adjust, and overcome to whatever is laid in\nfront of us, people issues, work issues, geopolitical issues, etc. You simply\ncannot know where to go until you start down the path and then you are guided\nby events. Yes, you can circumvent natural processes, but they usually\nwill become undone as they simply were not meant to be, at least that has been\nmy unique route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The title of this piece really sums up the\nthought process I mentioned above. I have a passion that started watching\nBig John do his thing with electricity and HVAC. It became my purpose, as that\nis how I started providing for myself and then my all-encompassing partner in\nlife, my wife Connie. Fast forward a few years and we started a business, we\nwere surviving. Day to day, week to week and then ultimately year to year. Great\ntimes, tough times, scary, loving, exciting times. You name the adjective, we\nlived it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What then would come\nnext? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thriving. To some, that may be earning a\npaycheck that you had never thought possible when your career started. Others\nmay feel that selling the company that you built would be the \u201cthriving\u201d\nbenchmark. All wonderful things in life to be sure and never taken for\ngranted. Not in this house anyway. But really thriving? <\/p>\n\n\n\n What about landing in a spot where you could\ngive back time to the cause(s) you have passion for? Sharing knowledge and\nexperiences to help build a platform or springboard that will allow more people\nto move through a journey of their own? Yep, for me, that is thriving. I am\nthriving as I type this. I work for an excellent company that wants to help\npeople; help people build their lives, help build their families, help solve\ncomplex mechanical issues and just live well. I live peacefully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Having time to think this through on my mental\nplayground is indeed thriving to my mind, and I look forward to a deeper\nengagement with many of you in the upcoming months and years. Not only to enjoy\nyour journeys with you, but to chronicle the good, the hard and the rewarding\nparts of your thriving life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n