Searching for Something?

When was the last time you felt undervalued, unappreciated, underutilized, or perhaps all the above? Sucks, doesn’t it? Would you be totally against me being vulnerable enough to share I’m feeling that way right now? If you’re in the same boat as me, then this one’s for you.

I’ve done a lot in my life the past ten years. From opening a gym in a pole barn behind a friend's house to moving into a commercial suite ten-months later and training over 100 athletes and grossing over $200K per year; to becoming a full-blown consultant for NFL teams and former Special Forces operators for sprint-training considerations for non-track athletes; to arguably the greatest producing first-year agent at the Michigan General Office for New York Life Insurance Company; to partnering with Dan S. Peña for a healthcare acquisition platform; to giving my life to Jesus in March, 2023; and then going from Sandwich Artist to Senior District Manager at Subway in seventeen-months, wrote a book, and then transitioned to Taco Bell, where I am now, taking struggling stores to top-performing ones in weeks, not months.

After all that, I’m still searching; for whatever my thing is. Am I ever going to “arrive” and be satisfied? Or am I going to continue to chase the next mountain to climb? I don’t think it’s a bad thing to always challenge myself, but this constant cycle of looking for whatever it is I’m looking for is exhausting because I don’t know what I’m looking for. This inevitably leads to interrogating myself all damn day with thoughts like:

Am I being ungrateful?
Am I being impatient?

Am I not working hard enough?
Am I just being a little bitch?

Then, I always come back to my own three-step process I outline in my book, which is:

1. Put God first.
2. Go all-in.
3. Run your race.

Numbers 1 and 2 aren’t the hard part. Putting God first for me looks like focusing on His business, and for whatever reason it seems that His business as it pertains to my walk with Him is the QSR industry. That part I get. Go all-in? No problem. My track record for the past two-years I’ve spent in the industry speaks for itself. But number 3, run your race, is where I get stumped.

Your own advice you give in your self-help book has you stumped?

I know how it sounds, trust me. And yes, it does. I don’t think it’s a matter of pacing myself—like the story I share in the book where I kicked too early in the 400-meter which led me to finishing third when I should have won—I’m a sprinter. Whatever situation you put me in, results are going to come quickly. Fast results without another challenge leads to boredom, which leads to, as I said before, searching for the next challenge because I feel underutilized and unappreciated.

This begs the question: is there a job or career that aligns with my sprinter-style of work and results? I haven’t found one yet.

My search continues…

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