Pulled in all directions
The power that runs all around us enables us to move fast but it also poses a risk.
I shot this image from my office, the pole is me, the wires, well that is life pulling me in all directions.
I am back in Houston for a few weeks, it is great to be home. Yet, I am being pulled, I am watching my energy go into all directions.
Building a business is not easy. The culture talks a lot about side hustles, and not quitting your day job until the “idea” takes off. Well, I am not a believer in a “side” anything, I play to win and bet accordingly.
I recently walked off a job, not by choice, I was forced to. The client was late on payment, I had been working since March, and have only recieved one payment, and it was back in March. One of my previous posts talked about the definition of “days”, well this is the project.
I was told multiple times, you will get paid, the wire is coming, and here I continue to wait. The only silver lining in all of this is that I had another project lined up in Houston. But, like the pole in the picture, more lines drawing energy away from the source. Yet, I am ok with it all, the stress, the lack of payment, the long days and time away; all of this makes me appreciate what I have even more.
I was asked today by the prime contractor on the current project, “are you good”? Yes and no is what I told him. Yes as in, I am healthy, grateful for the work, and my men have not abandoned me. No, as in, if the funds don’t clear by EOBD all communications will go through my attorney.
But, this is all part of the dance, and the lessons I am learning will make me Mikhail Baryshikov. Back to the telephone pole, what gives it strength is not what you see above the ground, it is what is below, depth gives strength. That is the lesson, I am having to go deep, I am having to draw upon strength from places that I never knew existed. I am finding that I have not reached my limit. If you look at the top of the pole, there are still spots for more wires; I too have more to give.
