What's next?

My life has revolved around work for the past 18 years.

The uncomfortable truth is that I have struggled to adapt to the change of pace and continue to think about work.

I am in a privileged position to be currently travelling the world with my family while working out what’s next in my career and what direction I want to go in.

Within a week of selling my company I had already began the process of starting a new business and announced on LinkedIn and socials which I now understand was me just trying to show that I am busy grinding and creating!

Worrying about the opinions of others following the standard and constant “what are you going to do next?” question.

I was rushing and not stepping back to actually appreciate what I had achieved with my business partner.

Our solicitor had congratulated us on the final day stating that taking a business from scratch to a successful exit is not easy, not often achieved and we should be proud of our achievements.

To speed up I needed to slow down!

Abby and I had always talked about travelling the world!

“One day! Let’s do it! One day! Do you think we will ever be able to do it? What about the kids school? What will people think? How do you even start planning? One day we’ll do it! “

Booked it, packed up and fucked off! What an adventure this has been!

As this journey nears an end there is a sense now of happiness in the chance to start all over.

I’d like to build something from scratch again. Maybe someone will employ me? I’d like to have fun and be creative without boundaries. Develop my ideas, grow the Dads and Dudes into a rocking community enriching the lives of men along with their families might be my route but I’m not sure yet!

I want to be around my kids and Abs more than ever before as time just keeps ticking. (You may laugh when I release my next blog which is titled ‘I hate my children’ but we’ll get to that later!!

Failure does not scare me. Looking back and thinking what if. That’s the scary stuff!