Here's wishing you and yours a Happy Thanksgiving.
Mom had kind of a tough year on the health front, but she's recovered nicely and was able to travel to New York to be with the East Coast contingent of the family today. This holiday finds our family healthy and whole and I'm very thankful for that.
I'm also thankful for those Americans, military and civilian, who are serving overseas and are away from their families today. Their sacrifices, and those of their families, are a huge reason we have much to be thankful for in this often brutal world.
This has been a tough year for me in some ways. Losing Sammy was a blow. Business has been awful and like many people, my financial situation has worsened this year. I've been very frustrated with our software provider for Keepsilks and our inability to get improvements done and fix known issues, to the point of almost slipping into depression again. It's been that toxic to me. I truly understand now why they say that 90% of new businesses fail. Barring winning the lottery, it is very much uncertain what I will be doing or where I will be a year from now.
But you know what? I feel good right now. For the last few months I've been looking at replacement software and website developers and while most people are hunkering down, I think we'll double-down. It has been reinvigorating to back away from the arguments and the "you can't" and get back into imagining the possible. It will make the next month brutally busy, but I think that will be in a healthy way.
It's a risk and I may fail again. But the other edge of that sword is opportunity.
And I'm very grateful today to have that.
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