Keep a loose grip

Once upon a time, I was a football player. I loved the game and decided to go play college ball. That was my plan, and I was so excited to make it happen. However, I graduated high school in 2020…so I’m sure you can assume how quickly my plans changed without my approval.

So, everything went awry. I was at a school that I only decided to go to because I wanted to play football, I was away from my family, and honestly, I was lost.

Nothing was going the way I had planned.

But it got better.

Fast forward several months, and enter Praxis. A business-driven apprenticeship training program that absolutely changed my life.

Here I am, 2.5 years later, with relevant experience in the fast-paced startup world, a wonderful wife, and a baby on the way. I couldn’t be more excited about the trajectory of my life now.

So, I definitely had plans for my life back in 2020. I thought I knew what the best course of action was. I was certain of it. Turns out, I had it all wrong, and I’m so glad I did.

Things didn’t go as I once intended, but once I let go of my intentions, I was able to step into a life that I couldn’t have come up with at that time.

Of all the things I’ve learned from that experience, the most important is this:

Be great at what you’re currently doing, be ready for the unexpected, and don’t grip your plans too tightly, because sometimes when you let go, you find something so much better than what you had in mind.