We started providing services for our Jeep club printing tee shirts and cutting vinyl windshield banners and hood graphics as a side business.  Word began to get around that (By God's Grace) we are pretty good at it.  We served people who found us where we live in the foothills of the  North Georgia Mountains, but we actually had to turn down as much work as we produced.

Many companies come into being because they have a particular talent or skill that people are willing to pay for, and if done well a fair exchange of value occurs and everybody is happy.   For me, that's no longer enough.  May I tell you why?

My eldest daughter while watching me stress day and night about my "big corporate job" tried to get me to read a book, which I always promised to start "tomorrow". I left my print industry employer early in 2022 when a global reorganization provided me an opportunity to separate on good terms.   I now had time to read the book, and consider it's meaning.   To be honest the timing for leaving my employer was not  what I would have wanted,  but I now very clearly see that God needed to work on me a bit more and return me to the priorities I claimed.  I boldly expressed in interviews decades ago: God is first, family is second, Job is third.  The book has become one of my favorites as it opened my eyes to the reality that my once sharp lines of priority faded with the pressures of the corporate world.  In it, the author described work in a way I had never considered before. I learned that while my original priorities while correct,  they were poorly defined and lacking in substance.