This year, with the help of some excellent business coaching, I have been more proactive and willing to take risk to pursue faster growth in my acoustic panel and projector rental businesses. We’ve developed and introduced more new products than ever before. I’ve committed capital courageously to fund growth. We’ve raised our standards for hiring and employee performance to new heights. And we’ve emphasized values and culture tirelessly in every meeting, and as many day-to-day situations as we can.

Setting our sights higher has paid off. We’ve achieved continued, accelerating, growth. This was pretty fun until I realized we’ve outgrown our parking, office, and warehouse space. Right now I’m working on a plan to provide the space we need for the next chapter of growth. It’s uncomfortable in a way that maintaining a status quo business size is not. Growth is demanding of cash and courage. Choosing when and where to expand our physical infrastructure is an open-ended, multi-faceted decision process. It’s stressful, it truly scares me, yet I wouldn’t miss this for anything.

I’m going to Ethiopia next Summer with a group from my church. If you want to do short-term missions with me, we’ve got room, let me know.