Right now, I’m working in my family’s heating and cooling business to fund my way through an MBA degree. My vision is to own a chain of gastropub microbreweries that source local ingredients and businesses. I think about it all the time and see them expanding into a whole chain. I imagine the brand and logo when I’m running and ask my subconscious to work on it while I’m asleep.
I’m not in a hurry, but at the same time, I am. I know that my only real competition is in the mirror but when the time comes for a bank loan, the competition will be the other people asking for the same loan. I’m already preparing for that meeting.
Even on a job site, I pay attention to how I look. I wear jeans that fit, clean work boots, and a decent shirt. I found out about PCA from my brother, a business consultant who always seems to wear the right thing. I admit that I was uneasy at first. I mean, was she going to make me wear pink? Or some scarf I would never wear? In life, the times I’ve grown most were those when I took a run at my fear, so I kept the appointment, but I didn’t tell any of the guys on the work crew!
“May I have the courage today to live the life I would love… to postpone my dream no longer. But do, at last, what I came here for and waste my heart on fear no more.” –John O’Donohue