Now I remember why I don’t pay attention to many quippy, quoty, quotes.
Calendar quote:
“Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” What?!?
Aaany way, here’s May 2016.
This was a very successful month, as far as making calendar notes. Filled the whole month up.
Up @ 5a.m. was consistent through the 10th. Then all of a sudden on the 11th I have “up @ 4:15” and that stayed as my morning wake up time through the month and I still have the alarm set everyday for 4:15. I am awake at 4:15, but I don’t always get outta bed at 4:15. Sometimes I just lay there and talk to God, under the covers, with my eye’s shut… no I’m not sleeping, well sometimes, but mostly not.
I don’t have any exact note as to the abrupt shift to 4:15. I do remember feeling rushed trying to get an hour in with Him and so I backed it up a bit.
It is nice and quiet at that time of morning and really dark. I like watching the sun come up. The sun beam is rock steady on it’s ascent up the north face of my bedroom wall, the darkness steadily retreats and the sun leaves in it’s path, full light and warmth and usually a smile from me. Funny how it’s never exactly the same though, each sunrise unfolding like an original play with the same characters and stage but different circumstances and wardrobe.
Another note I see is that I was ‘fidgety’ a lot while sitting in my small prayer chair. I remember asking, “what is up with that?” I would have to force myself to sit still.
I also was working on compiling the information needed to purchase a business, an auto body shop, where the owners were retiring.
I have owned other service oriented businesses in the past. Side hustle types, where I was growing organically. None ever made it past the having a few customers and it’s a good idea stage. And I also was a silent partner in a restaurant that my wife opened with another lady.
A couple things that I learned from that…
- One, don’t have partners.
- Two, don’t ever be a silent partner
- And C, Not everybody should have full access to the checkbook!
Lesson learned.
I felt bad for my wife though. She is very capable of running a good restaurant and was doing a fine job. But when the partner absconded, my wife was so sick, she never had the courage to start another venture.
C’ est la vie!
Looking at this new business I had determined to follow Gods ways instead of my own. I put together a team of professionals to help me look at the business. I sure did learn a lot. I asked an accountant, a banker and a lawyer to take a look at the property, financials and my business plan to give me there professional opinion.
It was a great journey.
I am wondering though. Is there anybody out there that runs a business with only one set of books or doesn’t have “cash day’s”?
Needless to say my team and I could not get the numbers to jive. I could have put an offer in on the property and had a nice shop to start something in but the plan of moving forward with it as a business wasn’t going to work.
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