My Wife's Career Transition As We Move To Spain: It's Exciting Because It's Uncertain
Most businesses start with an idea and a vision. That’s the easy part.
Being able to start from scratch or close to it and see your vision come to life over time and realize your end goal. That’s the hard part.
Most everyone can do the easy part. Very few can get the hard part done.
My wife has gotten the hard part done more than once, particularly when she moved to Los Angeles without knowing much English and built a full-service salon from the ground up.
I see that finished product almost daily. And it’s impressive. Not merely the longevity or success of the business, but the intangibles that have helped make the business successful.
Too few people appreciate, let alone possess the intangibles needed to start with nothing and grow and evolve it into a meaningful something. My wife does. She understands the small things and how—cumulatively—they’re one big thing that sets the talkers apart from the doers.
Everything from attention to detail, cleanliness and order to a willingness to appreciate and put in time to having a genuine social presence and the ability to connect with others. These are behaviors (yes) and qualities you can’t teach or you ultimately bang your head against the wall trying to teach. Melisse has them in spades. You can’t meet her without liking—(or falling in love with)—her and seeing that she cares.
So, I have zero doubt that her vision will become a reality.
Together, we’re moving to Spain. Starting a new, but also enhancing our current life in an environment more in line with our dreams, desires and day-to-day and sociocultural preferences. To make this move a success, we’ll use some of the same qualities you need to build things such as businesses.
Supporting one another while on distinct individual journeys as they pertain to work.
In today’s installment, more specifics on exactly what this looks like for Melisse. With a mix of subscriber questions and my own, we’ll also mix in answers to a few of the practical queries, including visa-related ones.
