Alright, there we go, I think we’re recording now, just a little minor hiccup at the beginning.

So welcome to episode 2 of Coffee with Aaron.

I’ve actually already had my coffee, so no more coffee for me right now.

Need to hydrate, so drinking water instead.

So the reason I had the coffee, this is one of the items on my Grateful Log, so we’ll just get right into it today.

So one of the items on my Grateful Log is getting out early to write at the diner before I had breakfast with my brother.

On a monthly basis, my brother and I get together, we both still live in the same area, and so we have had the practice of getting together fairly regularly, at least once a month.

Just the two of us for either a coffee or breakfast, we’ve been doing this for many years now, man, probably, I don’t know, easily over 5, could even be maybe 6 or 7 years he and I have been doing this.

Just as a way to have the one-on-one time together, certainly plenty of family events throughout the year, but that’s with everyone.

All the kids, all the parents, the grandparents, so it’s much busier.

So to catch up one-on-one, we have this monthly time scheduled early on a weekday morning before the workday starts, just to catch up before getting into everything.

So on those days, something I’ve been doing more recently is going to the diner earlier by about half an hour, so getting there around 6 in the morning when the diner opens up to do my writing then at the diner, just to change it up a little bit.

Forces me to get out of the house that much earlier, so yeah, it’s always a good time.

So that was a nice writing experience, just to be somewhere else, and always good to catch up with my brother.

Yeah, it was a good time.

So also on the Grateful Log today is a follow-up from yesterday.

Extremely grateful and thankful and happy with how the submitting my resignation went.

It went, man, I didn’t know what to expect.

Part of my role with what I do is, just to keep it simple, part of it is dealing with the operations end of things to help manage the work that we do for our client.

So part of that involves onboarding new staff and rolling folks off.

And so I’ve seen this process done, and on a pretty regular basis, we have just turnover.

We have a pretty large account, staffed account.

So anyways, I just didn’t know what to expect.

The last time I resigned from somewhere was, I guess, more than 10 years ago at this point, maybe 15 or so years ago.

And those experiences in the past, when I left a job, granted, they were different, but different environments, but still pretty professional, just didn’t go very well.

So I had this, I had a bad, I think I was leaning more towards a negative experience and a negative outcome from this time around, but it swung the total opposite direction to the point where the resignation was accepted and acknowledged and supported, actually, by everyone that I work with.

But there was a counteroffer of sorts, and we’re still working out the details of what that will look like.

So it’s not going to be like, in my head, I had this clean cut of, you know, effective October 13th, no longer doing this stuff.

But with the counteroffer, I don’t know, there’s something still available for me to do to continue supporting the account, just not as fully as I do now.

And it would be, we’ll say, a win-win situation of sorts.

Still need to finalize stuff and make sure everyone is, you know, agreeable to what we can do.

But I just wasn’t expecting it.

So just I’m very thankful for how all that went yesterday.

Hopefully it’s, you know, smooth from here on out.

And we’ll see if we can agree to what it looks like moving forward.

If not, it’s no skin off my back, as they say, because I was, in my head, I’m already done on the 13th.

So if we can work out something where they still get some of my time and I feel like it’s okay, it fits in with my new schedule, then so be it.

If not, not the end of the world, though.

So, yeah, just, it went really well.

Very, very thankful and happy with how all that went.

We will stop talking about this eventually, and just so, but, you know, it’s top of mind.

It’s a very big milestone in my life.

So that’s why it’s going to be here for a few more times, most likely.

Finally, on the Grateful Log is just honest conversations.

That related, admittedly, to this resignation topic.

Something about it kind of opened up other people that I work with, that I’ve been working with for many years.

And it’s like, once you, once someone makes that decision, who maybe they didn’t think would, it changes, it changes the dynamic a little bit.

And now they feel a little more open to say things where previously they wouldn’t have said them.

And same on my end as well.

Submitting the resignation almost enabled or allowed, in my mind, me to be more honest with, you know, my hopes, my desires, my goals, you know, personally and professionally.

Where previously I didn’t feel like I, and again, this is on me.

Like I understand this is a me thing, not a them thing.

I think either way, I never really felt like I could be totally honest with, you know, my goals, because my goals didn’t really involve, you know, the company.

So why would they care?

And why would they keep me around if they knew that I was always trying to work my way out?

So I don’t know.

But all that to say, it just, it opened up honest conversations, I think, that were not there before.

So yeah, apologies for, you know, that being the sole topic.

But like I said, it’s a big thing going on right now for me.

So that’s why it’s there.

Yeah, and I guess I’ll, I didn’t write this down in my grateful log, but the also the support and encouragement received from everyone online that I said, you know, mentioned or or updated on the resignation has been phenomenal.

Phenomenal.

Specifically, the all the individuals on on micro blog that reached out with encouragement.

It’s just awesome.

Like the there’s there’s a lot of bad stuff about the internet, for sure, it can be pretty murky in different spots.

So to have positive interactions with people is is pretty awesome.

So I, that means a lot to me.

So, all right, that’s going to be it for today.

I hope that that you have an awesome Tuesday.

Again, whether it’s just starting or at the end, I hope everything goes great.

And if it doesn’t, take a moment, stop and think what are a few things that you can be grateful for.

Do that daily.

It’s it’s a pretty nice practice to get into.

It’ll keep you smiling.

That’s for sure.

All right.

Well, that’s it.

We’ll talk again tomorrow.

Take care.