Transforming Love Into Usefulness
Key takeaways
- I spent my days doing what I loved, using my mind and my hands to build high-end custom furniture.
- At the time, my wife and I were young, and we didn’t panic when the funds didn’t come right away.
- My wife became pregnant, and our first daughter, Anne, was stillborn.
Dreaming big and doing what you love is hollow without usefulness.getty One of the things that adults ask children is, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Once they respond with whatever they want to do, the older person sometimes says back something akin to, “As long as you find something you love, you will never work a day in your life.”
I lived by that mantra for a long time. I spent my days doing what I loved, using my mind and my hands to build high-end custom furniture. But it wasn’t financially viable. How I ended up correcting that while still keeping my love intact changed my life and business forever.
At the time, my wife and I were young, and we didn’t panic when the funds didn’t come right away. We felt that eventually my passion for woodworking would bring me success.