Well, I went ahead and pulled the trigger today, resigned my position here in Kansas City, Missouri to take on a new and amazing challenge with a firm in Englewood, Colorado.
There was a time, some years ago when this wouldn’t be such a big deal. Offer me a new job, a new challenge, well smack my butt and call me the Poster Child of Change, I was there!
It’s so very, very different now. As a Husband and Father I thought about the risk, the effort to move a home, the challenges my family will face in order for me to be happy. It’s true, a person can deny and bury their own needs if they think it necessary to protect the people they love.
But when you’re grumpy, stressed and distant are you really protecting the ones you love, or are you projecting.
In the end, my wife is embracing the change, even though she will have to recreate a whole new nest, find new friends and adapt to a whole new environment.
This isn’t the end, it’s a new beginning. Say I can see a new house from here!