I’ve been caught up, for an entire lifetime, simply telling others that I still haven’t figured out what I want to be when I grow up…in and out of sales or management situations, enjoying things as they come and sometimes needing to bow out when things stopped making sense.
In January, I’d quit my full time position because of this exact thing. Things stopped making sense and as much as I could sell myself on that the position I was in, paid a decent salary and that I wasn’t digging frozen ditches with a pick axe…I could no longer keep toe to line.
Wouldn’t be fair to the company that I worked for.
Wouldn’t be fair to my family - keeping a smile covering my misery.
It wouldn’t have been fair to me.
Throughout the last few years, I’d managed to keep up an amazing clip of study, investigation and content creating on a couple to few different platforms but as I’ve sat trying to sort out the question - what do I want to be when I grow up? - I’ve kinda dropped the ball on everything.
Last night I had a bit of an epiphany…
A realization…
An awakening…
I love doing this YakkStack thing.
It’s not for being recognized when I go out…that doesn’t happen that often.
It’s not just for the likes, comments, reshares, emails and phone calls - specifically.
It is because I’ve met some amazing people, had some amazing conversations and feel like this has helped make a difference, even if only to me.
So…while I have come to appreciate there are certain risks, what I also appreciate is that the best way to insulate myself from this isn’t hiding…it’s blowing the fucking doors off!
Swinging for the fences, as it were.
Enough of this half-assing it…enough of this hiding when things get difficult.
It’s TIME!
I will not create content for the sake of creating content, that wouldn’t be fair to you and wouldn’t be that enjoyable for me. But while we’re in this together, it’s time that I started realizing that what I am, because I’m already grown up and use the tools that I have at my disposal, the platforms that I’ve worked to create and strive to make a bigger difference.
There will be no Paid Only Content. If I cannot produce the content worthy of greater support, I’ll work harder…and if need be, find another way to subsidize this until I can make it happen.
Today…my new thousand mile journey begins and this is my first step.
Thanks for being a part of and while I have no idea where were going to end up, we’re going to have a lot of fun getting there!
Onward! “Now is no time to think of what you do not have.
Think of what you can do with that there is”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea
Keep swinging Yak never give up. 👏