CEO Swagger

“All you have to do is jump!” This is the personal pep talk I have with myself almost every day. That is because I am convinced that my job is misusing my time and my talents. What’s more is that my dreams are very jealous and start to nag me when I don’t give them enough attention. Success takes time; measurable hours of working, talking, thinking, planning and executing. At my after-work, part-time pace, the journey seems to get longer and not shorter. I have to make a decision.

Oh yea, my name is Bryson and I am the CEO and co-founder of The 8trk Project, Inc.. Welcome to my business blog. I have decided to publish a business blog for a few reasons. One, someday I am going to write a book on responsible entrepreneurship. In writing a few things for our company blog, our business plan and marketing materials, I have watched my writing skills get better. I hope that as I pitch my thoughts to you from this page that that development will continue.

Two, I don’t know it all, but I do know this for certain: success leaves footprints. I find in my own success journey that the stories of the good, bad and ugly keep me going. As we begin to build our new project, I want to competitively inspire my startup peers and leave a few clues behind for the next generation of entrepreneurs. That being said, I hope to see you at the top.

Third, I want to be publicly accountable for my business goals. I heard a story that the great inventor Thomas Edison was known to hold a press conference each time he had a new invention . . . then he would go home and build it. Powerful stuff.

We all should have something to reach for; something that charges us with energy just thinking about it. Mine is to achieve that quality of life that eludes most. A balance of time, money, family, faith, friends and work born of passion and not of necessity. Sounds tough . . . but the alternative is to try to keep myself busy enough to drown out the noise of those nagging dreams.

Helen Keller wrote that “security is man’s most prevalent superstition”. This is a very hard truth. So one day . . . with my heart in my throat . . . and a prayer in my mouth . . . I let go.

I jumped.

Category : Reflection