Thank you Simple Things

If you've followed this blog for any length of time, you may notice that the name has recently changed.  While 'The Simple Things' worked in the beginning, as I've moved into a different stage of life, it was time for a change here as well.  So, why 'Country Strength Maine' you ask?  Because it's the name I've chosen for the business I'm currently in the process of developing.  While eventually I'll develop it into a brick and mortar

Country Strength Maine

location; a gym and training center to be precise, for now it's simply social media pages and this blog.  And the one thing those all have in common is they allow me to present ideas, information, opinions, and down the road video's, interviews, and graphic's.  What it came down too is eventually for both efficiency and my own sanity everything was going to need to fall under one heading.  Doing it now is taking the needed and inevitable step and I know it's right because doing so exhibited a physical deep breath of relaxation.

So what else is going to change with the new CSME blog?  Not much that I can foresee other than my plan to use it while developing a clearer picture of how I want the future to play out..  The premise will remain the same in that I'll write about a variety of topics such as training, leadership, education, concussion/TBI, being a husband and caregiver to someone with a neurological disorder, parenthood, relationships, and how working with and around life develops us into the people we become and the changes that take place within us throughout the journey.

The truth is, I really do enjoy writing.  I often find myself writing social media posts meant to be a few lines or at most a paragraph that turn into damn near blog post length.  The problem becomes time, specifically time management if I'm being honest, though it's a problem I feel like I'm continuously getting better at.  Managing my time is so much more important now than it's ever been.  Between the TBI and it's effects, family, dogs, house, my career, and my desire to develop my own business, I'm somewhere between not having and not making the time to sit and put fingers to keyboard.  I haven't worked on either editing a novel that's first draft completed nor really begun my next book, which I feel excited to write at times but go blank with upon finally sitting down to work on.  (Steven Pressfield calls this resistance and I admit it defeats me often).  By treating everything as multiple platforms under the same umbrella rather than multiple platforms with no connection, it's my hope that it'll make post writing more efficient because it'll allow me to be more focused and reduce the amount of new topic generation I'm required to do.  Of course, it's unlikely to be as simple as change the name and voila, things are amazing but given some time and practice I can foresee this being a great long term change.

Spring is the Season for Growth

I guess that's it for now.  Just a quick update but it feels good to be writing again.  So good I think upon completion of this I'll begin the next post, which will be a bit more topic specific.

It's spring here in Maine.  The birds are chirping, the mud is beginning to dry up, and soon things will begin to bloom; Maine will be alive again after its winter slumber.  It only seems appropriate that in a season of such change, Country Strength Maine begins to grow from the seeds planted by The Simple Things.