Passion, Purpose, Survive & Thrive

• Post By: Greg Crumpton
• Date: October 18, 2022
• Category: Blog

When did things start? That is a question that I have pondered more than once over the last few years. What started when I was a little kid watching his father hone his craft has, over the last fifty-eight or so years, turned into a life-long passion. 

Or is it a – my – purpose?

Like many things in life, your motivating factors go through their own evolution, adoption, and maturing processes. What you start out with does not end up like what you envisioned it would, and that is good. Good because we adapt, adjust, and overcome to whatever is laid in front of us, people issues, work issues, geopolitical issues, etc. You simply cannot know where to go until you start down the path and then you are guided by events. Yes, you can circumvent natural processes, but they usually will become undone as they simply were not meant to be, at least that has been my unique route.

The title of this piece really sums up the thought process I mentioned above. I have a passion that started watching Big John do his thing with electricity and HVAC. It became my purpose, as that is how I started providing for myself and then my all-encompassing partner in life, my wife Connie. Fast forward a few years and we started a business, we were surviving. Day to day, week to week and then ultimately year to year. Great times, tough times, scary, loving, exciting times. You name the adjective, we lived it. 

What then would come next?

Thriving. To some, that may be earning a paycheck that you had never thought possible when your career started. Others may feel that selling the company that you built would be the “thriving” benchmark. All wonderful things in life to be sure and never taken for granted. Not in this house anyway. But really thriving? 

What about landing in a spot where you could give back time to the cause(s) you have passion for? Sharing knowledge and experiences to help build a platform or springboard that will allow more people to move through a journey of their own? Yep, for me, that is thriving. I am thriving as I type this. I work for an excellent company that wants to help people; help people build their lives, help build their families, help solve complex mechanical issues and just live well. I live peacefully.

Having time to think this through on my mental playground is indeed thriving to my mind, and I look forward to a deeper engagement with many of you in the upcoming months and years. Not only to enjoy your journeys with you, but to chronicle the good, the hard and the rewarding parts of your thriving life.

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Until next time,

Stay sagacious!

G