Our company will turn 14 later this year, and it’s a far different company than I might have predicted 14 years ago. I didn’t have a specific plan in mind when we started, so I’ve just been enjoying the journey and I’m very happy with how things have turned out.
In Adam Savage’s book “Every Tool’s a Hammer”, he explains it this way:
Nothing we make ever turns out exactly as we imagined; that this is a feature not a bug; and that this is why we do any of it. The trip down any path of creation is not A to B. That would be so boring. Or even A to Z. That’s too predictable. It’s A to way beyond zebra. That’s where the interesting stuff happens. The stuff that confounds our expectations. The stuff that changes us.
The same could perhaps be said about this blog. My first post was nearly 20 years ago, and I had no real plan for that either. Things were sporadic on here for 17 years until I got more serious and started publishing every day starting in late 2020.
I’ve become much better about goal setting in recent years, but even then I try to keep my mind open. I may plan to go from A to B, but if I’m halfway there and zagging over to C makes more sense, I’ll do that instead. It’s a fine line between “shifting goals” and “going wherever the wind blows”, but either way you can enjoy the ride along the way.
