That was the thought that waited me as I got my morning coffee. It arrived suddenly and punched quickly. It hit hard. Very hard. Harder than I could imagine. It felt like deep self-criticism. That I can understand something but that my needs will override my thoughts. That I am a being of immeasurable frustration.
As soon as the thought arrived it and the feeling it brought were gone. I did linger on it or let it affect me. It moved on and so did I. Yet, here I am writing about it. There is something in it. Some nugget of truth that I can’t get at. It is Sunday morning and this is the eternal struggle in some way. Man wants instant gratification and God demands patience, but it feels like both more and less than that.
Self directed because of all the work I’ve been doing. Working to get the business set-up on a path that brings us to the future. Last night I voiced something that felt crazy but is true. Once we get all this foundational work done opening a second location moves from possible to realistic. I tell people I recently accidentally hired a high school student as a joke, and it is funny because how does someone do that. How did I do that? But it speaks to a solid foundation. I looked at interview answers and qualities more than anything else.
If we did open a second location this wouldn’t be diving in with both feet. This would be years of planning and struggle coming to the forefront. We have now made several good hires via zoom and phone interviews. We don’t need to interview in person. Training on the other hand is another matter. That is different. That is still in person and that is the trouble. Still, it is a known obstacle.
Like I told my friend last night if I were to do this it would be Northern Virginia, particularly a place I lived before. Somewhere where I knew the geography and could create the rules. We would need different scheduling SOPs for a different location. For example, a seven mile radius in Virginia Beach is workable. In Northern Virginia it would be a nightmare.
We’ve known two companies that have tried to do the opposite expansion and failed. It makes it scary, and the price of failure needs to be examined. This is a long game problem, but I don’t think it is a crazy thought.
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