Good morning, Team! It’s Friday!

What’s your next life chapter?

How do you follow up your last major contribution?

Do you have another story in you?

I spoke with a good friend and former coworker this week who came to the end of his run at a company he enjoyed. There were signs that it was time and he methodically and professionally made his exit … and has already started something new! We chatted a bit since he knows I’ve been through a few transitions myself. We all tend to ask the same questions:

•Why me?

•What did I do wrong?

•What can I do to fix it?

as we work through the grieving process.

Once you’ve been through a couple of hard transitions, like an Evel Knievel Caesar’s Palace fountain jump landing (YouTube it for effect) and live to talk about it…now that is an expert in falling hard and getting back up again. And then you realize, it was a lesson, not a life sentence.

In their book

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

Robert Moore and Douglas Gillette explain the four male archetypes and the difficulty that exists today for men to mature without the benefits of ritual and proper mentors.

Is it possible that if we don’t discover ourselves, fully, earlier in life, that we’re bound to acquire those lessons (through adversity) eventually. Is the hard transition from one chapter to the next more in our control and less subject to fate than we recognize?

“When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.”

‭‭1 Corinthians‬ ‭13‬:‭11‬ ‭NIV‬‬

The future has many names

For the weak, it’s unattainable

For the fearful, it’s unknown

For the bold, it’s ideal

Victor Hugo

Have a blessed weekend!

Be bold.

Define your ideal future.

Kiss your Valentine

Eric