Mid Life Marketer’s Kick Start

My Big Why Part 2
Meltdown

Then the inevitable breakdown happened. As bad as it felt, I was lucky, because I had friends (including my wife) who forced me to get talking again. They persisted when I couldn’t do anything apart from get outdoors and focus on the beautiful simplicity of climbing a piece of rock or ice. Not that I could even organise myself to sort the gear out for climbing or a bit of paddling. All the time school hung over me like a black cloud on the horizon. I got back to work eventually and made it through to the summer holidays. After the years of stress and dissatisfaction at home my wife and I parted company just as the holidays arrived. We managed to keep everything very civilised. It was hard. She had already met an old flame and she was visibly blooming as her fires were rekindled. She had enough sensitivity still, to keep things relatively discreet to my eyes. Slowly we adjusted to the new order. ( I haven’t even mentioned the children - but they coped in a way that still makes both of us very proud and is quite humbling).

By this time I was slowly waking up to the fact that I was in several places I just didn’t want to be. I had already started dabbling in the on-line marketing world, just to see if it was viable, as I already spent a lot of time at the computer. I thought, “… if I can get my computer habits to make me a living, I might be onto a winner!”. Indecision and prevarication were, unfortunately, the flavours of the day back then. I was going nowhere. Except for one thread that had persisted. UVME was in its pre-launch period and I knew that this was a project I wanted to be involved with. Strong reasons for my WHY were beginning to form in my mind. I just couldn’t put my finger on them at that stage. In my next post, I’ll show exactly how clear my WHY has become.
Ray