Some mornings I wake up and sit here waiting for the topic to come to me. This is, at its roots, a gratitude journal, but like I have said before I can only be grateful for my family and friends so often. Yesterday was a day of little adventure. I got up, dropped the kids off at vacation bible camp, went to work, the grocery store, and home. Found out the lawn company had broken a pane of glass on our front door and finally had someone agree to help with our bookkeeping.
The problem is I woke up still a little annoyed at the modern sales tactics of not explaining their value to you but of turning the sale around and making you sell yourself to them. I noticed it again yesterday on a website for a cigar bar. I was thinking of possibly joining as it would be a good social club and business networking opportunity. However, I was quickly persuaded not to do that as the inquiry form makes it clear it is an application, and the language used is more of that same you should feel honored to give us your money BS.
Back to the gratitude and I should be very grateful for the accountant I spoke to. She is the families accountant and my father had a way with people. I can’t explain it, but he had connections all over town. People that wanted to work for him and do things for him. It was one of the reasons my friends in high school thought the family business was something other than selling photographic supplies. It also didn’t help that I referred to it as the family business.
While this year has been a drag 2026 looks like it could be a good one. The Stable Hands website has started delivering leads again and family business should be settled by September of this year. If I can get a good running start in October, November, and December I can hit the ground running in 2026 and get us to where we need to be and then where we want to be.
Things are coming together and all I have to do is not get in the way. The issue is I’m not always good at that. I like getting in the way. My impatience often gets the best of me and waiting until September is hard enough. Waiting until 2026 is going to feel impossible.
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