“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow.”
– Melody Beattie
Can’t stop, won’t stop…
You cannot break up with yourself, you cannot grow apart from yourself. No matter where you are in life, the rest is up to you.
There are a lot of reasons that I started Tahzoo and a very important one is that I wanted to test myself. I wanted to see if I could build a company that did meaningful work and provided an environment where each person would have the opportunity to grow to find their best self. It is the most important thing to me. Over the last 9.5 years, I’ve been tested in so many ways, so many unexpected ways. I’ve found new reservoirs of strength and at the same time been left grieving over my failures and inadequacies. There was a show called ABC Wide World of Sports with the tagline “The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat”. I used to love to watch this show as a kid, watching various athletic competitions with a detailed storyline about the contestants. I really enjoyed hearing the back story about the athletes and how they progressed through their training to compete at the highest levels.
If I learned anything from the show, I learned that being good is hard but being great is a whole different level of effort. Even with all the practice, all the training, and all the effort, sometimes you come up short… but do you really? Or is it more about the effort and what you learn about yourself along the way?
Your career is your sport. You work hard, improve your skills, and hopefully one day you’re executing at the highest levels. Sometimes you’ll be extraordinarily successful and sometimes you’ll come up short, but every day is a chance to learn about yourself and make improvements. I want Tahzoo to be a place where you have a chance to excel.
I’ll continue to work hard and engineer the company in ways that increase the opportunity for each of you to be successful. Some days we’ll enjoy the thrill of victory and some days the agony of defeat, but you’ll never ever see me stop trying to make Tahzoo a better place and I hope that I can count on each of you to do the same.
Let’s go be great!
Brad