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In This Issue: A Much Needed Break (Criag pt. 2!) | 4 Post Rack Mount Adjustable Rails | Bits and Bytes | News to Start Your Day
The CK Daily – A Much Needed Break (Criag pt. 2!)
Happy Thursday!
Last time, I wrote about the origins of the CK Daily, our work during Covid, and my need to take a sabbatical. Now, on to Part 2.
After the insanity of Covid was over, I planned to take 1-2 months off. An advisor suggested I needed to take more like 4-5 months off. Crazy, I know, but with a great team in place and the ability to do so, I took the advice. Within three months, I had reassigned some roles, including asking my wife, Christin, to step back into the business after nearly 10 years away. I committed to joining a monthly strategy and financial meeting and was content to work on projects around the house, start a few hobbies, help friends with some things, and I began tinkering with a few revenue-generating side projects.
I expected to come back, but by the five-month mark, I decided not to. It wasn’t that I disliked the business, the people, the customers, the product, or anything else. I think I was just done with it for a while. It was a 20-year season, which is a long time to do anything. I came to realize that I tend to work as if I’m trying to swim across the ocean, thinking that if I don’t swim all the way, I will drown. But “all the way” never comes—it’s the ocean. In my 20’s and 30’s my ability to swim seemed endless. But the older you get, at some point, you just give out. This realization is probably why the advisor suggested such a long break. I needed time to reach a blank slate and re-evaluate everything.
What I didn’t yet understand was the difference between things that give you energy vs things that take your energy and how that plays into the grand scheme of all of it.
More to come in Part 3!
Craig
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Learning Center Article – Bits and Bytes
In a world of computers, everything is digital, and when you get down to it, that means everything is expressed in 1s and 0s.
In order for computers to keep track of all of the 1s and 0s, they group and organize information. They do this for calculating things on a computer, storing pictures on a flash drive, and even liking posts on social media. As for that grouping, it involves bits and bytes, so let’s take a minute to learn all about these important units.
Today’s News to Start Your Day:
- Spirit Airlines is offering voluntary exit packages to salaried employees, the budget carrier’s latest cost-cutting measure as it expects financial strains to continue next year.
- Microsoft announced they will have a non-voting board seat at OpenAI.
- Folks expressed their frustration over Google Maps’ new colors over the Thanksgiving travel season. The roads are now gray, the water is teal, and parks are mint.
- The truce between Israel and Hamas has been extended a day after a last-minute agreement for the release of more hostages and Palestinian prisoners.