Do It!
Today is the day. Right? Today is the day that I’m going to do it. I’m going to be totally focused. I’m going to keep my desk clean. I’m going to hit 5:00 and be amazed at the day.
Maybe.
Its been a rough 18 months or so in our business. That’s not really revolutionary information, seeing as we’re pretty heavily tied to real estate development. Tracking things back to about October 1, 2008, our workload pretty much shut off as if someone had cranked down a faucet. I haven’t wanted to write much about it, well, because it isn’t very much fun to talk about. I’m guessing that if I were to graph the number of things I’d written in general over the last five years, there’d be a pretty substantial drop right at about that time.
But today is the day. Today is the day that it turns around. The turnaround is less about how many projects are walking in the door, less about how I feel about things, less about whether the day is a win or a loss. Today is the day that I realize that after a year or more of uncertainty about the future of our company, the one thing I am certain of is that God has provided for my family precisely what we needed the entire time. Remember the Lord’s prayer? “Give us this day, our daily bread” – That’s precisely what we’ve experienced as a company – and ever month we’re able to keep things going is a win.
The thing is, regardless of the situation, regardless of the feeling about the circumstance, you still have to soldier on. There’s been some pretty good temptation to be a quitter, to give up. No way.
That’s about all I’m hopefully ever going to say about where things are, work-wise. Today’s the day I’m done worrying about it.
Today is the day that I start writing again. Feels good.
Time to clean my desk.