Despite a political environment both domestically and globally that should be having me in permanent depression, I don't feel that way in the slightest. In fact, going into 2025, I feel buoyant.
Why? you might ask.
Well one is I am on the upswing of my 'Groundhog Day' work cycle. This occurs roughly every third year during my transition life. (The cycle is roughly, realizing I have to work to travel the way I want, throwing myself into work, going on some trip that makes me wish we could travel as much as I want without having to work, letting my work slip, realizing I don't have the money we need to travel, throwing myself back into work.) This time, however, things are being supercharged by breaking of the wave of Baby Boomer business owner exits.
This wave has been predicted for some time. But the pandemic and people's incredible ability to procrastinate has pushed it many years beyond when many expected. But, as the front edge of the Baby Boomer wave is now it their 70's, life is catching up. People are finding that 'stuff' happens, death, disease, burnout, etc. leading them to finally not being able to put things off. Unfortunately for them, by this time there options are severely limited. Plus it takes a good amount of expertise to carry off even those options. AND there aren't a whole lot of people around (especially here in New Mexico) who have the ability to help people work through those limited options. One of those few people is me! So I'm finding there are all kinds of opportunities.
In addition to that, Theodora Project, is ready to go to its next phase (I wrote about this in December). We have a number of interesting new avenues for driving our growth. And I have a team that is carrying most of the weight.
We are getting close to finally getting the house remodel project started. Most of the pieces are falling into place. We hope in a couple of weeks to have all the estimates so we can look at setting an actual date to get started!
Lastly, Wife's health is slowly but steadily getting better. It has taken much longer than we would have hoped. But her progress is definitive. We still won't be traveling for a while, but we see that we will be able.
So, all kinds of exciting stuff going on. It is shaping up to be a fun year.
2 comments:
Yay, that is a lot to be excited about! I´m especially glad to hear about Aunt de-I´s continuting improvement.
Note that I did not follow the Baby Boomer´s examples, and got out of the working world as soon as I possibly could. But that´s good timing for you.
even when we like our status quo, it is still enjoyable and refreshing to have a break from that, and enjoy the novelty of a different structure to life.
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