andrew james

I’ve been posting and writing a little less than usual.
For anyone who’s missed me, sorry I’ve just been learning to focus.
The fact is, I’m making some big break throughs in lots of areas
and I think you’ll soon start seeing some new stuff from me.

One of the reasons, I am having sooo many breakthroughs are
my bike rides. If you’ve followed my blog for a while you know
that I have a goal and an adventure I want to take of cycling the entire PCH
coast line. So, I’ve been spending a lot more time on a bike, and it’s let me
have my headphones in, iPod on with a lot more new information and books.
Lots about marketing and persuasion and success and strategy in general.

Anyway, I took a little bit of a different route this week, and realized that I
was near an old familiar place. It was the house we rented as a family when
we first moved to Utah from Colorado. I took a picture of it for you here.

This is the duplex we rented before becoming entreprenuers...

It’s not an impressive house. It was actually our half of a duplex and was supposed to
be temporary but lasted quite a bit longer than we had hoped.
I won’t go into all the details of where we were and why, and where we are now and
all of that story would take too long. I will just say that I live in a completely different world now.
Things have progressed and changed a ton.

What fascinates me though, is how little we realize we have accomplished, until we go back.
Go back 5 or 10 years in your mind, go back there in reality if you can. And then look forward down
the path you have already traveled. It’s an interesting, and awesome experience. You’ll look at where
you are, what you’re doing and achieving, what you have become etc, with different eyes.

If you’re in a rough place right now, I get it, this may not be fun it may actually be depressing.
All that means is that you have to go back further. You may even be able to feel grateful
for some of your problems and challenges. That was a fun experiment for me, and exciting for me
to remember and think through.

That said, I have to include something a wise Brazilian friend of mine once told me:

If you are always looking backwards, you trip.

I am sincerely interested in your story, your thoughts, and where you’ve been and where you’re going and how all that makes you feel.
Leave your insight below, I’m really looking to start a conversation here and see what we can all learn from each others experience.