Dark to Light

The path is not always clear, and sometimes we have to embrace destruction if we’re going to build ourselves into something new.

I’m one week into my new project with three more to go. I snapped these pictures yesterday—they mark the beginning of something beautiful. I’ve seen the renderings of what this building will become, and the transformation is going to be wild.

But before any of that can happen, I have to remove the old to make room for the new.

My journey from my previous career to this one feels a lot like these photos. Back in 2017, I stood in front of two doors. Door #1 was to stay in Oil and Gas—keep pushing, find another job, stick with what I knew. Door #2 was the unknown, the door that would eventually lead me to the NOW.

To walk through it, I had to break a lot of things. I had to build a new team, learn a new industry, and reinvent myself from the ground up.

Sometimes we have to take a hammer to our old ways of thinking—completely destroy them—to make space for who we’re supposed to become. It’s amazing how much “stuff” we carry, and how much has to go before possibility can move in.

Changing yourself isn’t easy. But it is possible—if you truly want it.

Enjoy the weekend. I’ll be back on my jobsite breaking things, making room for what’s coming next.