Yesterday I thought I hit the wall. Today, I realize it was Resistance – with a capital R.
Resistance is always strongest near the finish line.
The weight of achieving my next level hit me…
“I’m going to have two full-time employees by this time next month. Other people’s livelihood will depend on our success.”
When the weight of that reality settled in, my immediate next thought was, “The existence I’ve known for 16 years is about to change forever.” ????
And that went straight to, “It’s a runaway train and there will be no turning back.”
That’s when it dawned on me that yesterday was likely Resistance.
All my other employees have been part-time. Claudine is going full-time in March and our new Associate Financial Planner should start in mid-March.
Between the two of them I, Rick Valenzi, am committing over $120,000 of what would be MY own personal income to payroll. It’s not some VC’s money or money I raised from a friends and family round. It’s literally cash flow that I’ve painstakingly grown over the last 16 years.
And that is going to allow two people to pay their mortgage and save for retirement and buy groceries and go on vacation. Whew! If that ain’t a new level of responsibility, I don’t know what it is.
That was thought #1.
Thought #2 sunk in when I realized that the 80% of my time that’s currently consumed by Member meetings is about to fundamentally change.
My job will no longer be the “doing.” It’ll be training, quality control and strategy. The end of my “doing” days is hurtling towards me.
And that’s a runaway train that ain’t gonna stop. There’ll be no looking back once I pass through this corridor. A new identity will be formed and everything I’ve known for the last 16 years will completely change.
So yeah. Resistance is always strongest on the precipice of the next level. Yesterday wasn’t burnout. It was the Big R.
