Finding a Purpose, Founding a Company, and A Defining Experience
Aligning with something so strongly that it becomes what you are excited for every day is a life-changing experience when you have the drive to execute it. Getting there would be an adventure of testing how far I would be willing to go and learning about forces in the world that would shape my perspective.
“Working twelve hours a day six to seven day’s a week as a normal is something you just don’t see people sustain unless they are the right kind of crazy” is what Salim Ismail, who ran Yahoo’s incubator Brickhouse, told me a few months ago. His encouragement of how driven & obsessed I can be and having more mentors than I can count on one hand are some of the strongest assets in my life.
Connection of self through…
Through the emission of Self
Its produced through/with perspective
Mindfulness through/with the journey
Purposeful through/with convergence
Through/with wisdom and on we go
An organization where people can find the answer from within themselves.
So, I went and built one. An organization that runs like an organism that self replicates and repairs.
Building an organization matching hundreds of people & ideas, learning how to do every needed job to fill in, and self-funding a company was just the beginning of my understanding of what he meant. The moments of people not coming through and months of the only option being “we don’t go to sleep till we are done” is something that words don’t give credit to.
Results, on the other hand, are easy to speak to. The community has formed into a globally distributed think-tank that supports individuals and companies. Teams and products have been formed and are continuously improving. We have a support grid for consultants to diversify their offerings through collaboration. Now paired with business launching we also help cities and counties attract the business that we can set up, wow!
It truly is an honor to be serving so many people and teams through this process and I learned an immeasurable amount. How to achieve this level of results comes from a kind of motivation. Something that comes organically through the failures of executing while learning. To parallel this, it takes a determination to change something and the willingness to fail. That will get you through anything if you are mindful. However, as much as these are some powerful takeaways these are the rewards of growth and painful moments that are easy to look back on.
In summary, this has been the most solidifying experience I have ever been through. There is the short and sweet of it and I can only be grateful. Hence there is so much value to the idea of convergence I feel.
