In 2017, my family went through the process of dealing with a serious health scare.
My wife went through the actual serious health scare that derailed everything in her life and our family’s lives.
Everything we had going forward, including a lot of very big, very large, very audacious plans I had set in place to begin for my business at the same time we got notice of what we were about to go through.
Obviously, my business projects did not launch according to my initial plans, as I had to pause everything and make sure that my wife would be fine through her process.
Looking back about 18-months later (as of the date this is published), she is perfectly fine.
Her recovery, though painful for her and stressful for everyone around, was amazing, and still shocks people who know how hard it should have been.
My business did not recover as amazingly as my wife did physically. I had so much time focused on day-to-day care of my wife plus day-to-day care of my daughter (five-years-old at the time) plus making sure my son was up to date on what was going on at home as he was away finishing up college. And of course, barely taking care of myself physically.
Something had to give, and since my day job was paying the bills, the side hustle wasn’t completely discontinued, but greatly suffered from lack of attention.
Honestly, I ran myself down fairly early in the process and quickly realized I had to make some priority decisions and let some things I loved about being creative and making my own money fall to the wayside to get the things that were important to be done, done.
I found in some cases some things were not as important to get done at the moment as I thought they would be, and ironically was saved watching some bad project dies miserably as the conditions I saw as green lights quickly turned red as I sat on the sidelines.
Sometimes you can find yourself working hard to make things happen, only to realize that life can get in the way and you will find yourself working a bit too hard at the things that aren’t quite as important. At least, this ordeal led me to find this out. Hopefully, you can learn the same lesson from my story without having to live through something similar yourself.