re: The Vision

Thank you.

I have a neighbor with many times more money than I whom is always in his garage playing with his toys.

He says he wants a lot of things. I think to myself, “you have the money and the time, just buy the damn CNC plasma cutter you keep talking about.”

But he doesn’t buy it. I don’t get it. He is constantly asking me to cut things for him. Last I cut a piece of his roof rack on his zombie apocalypse vehicle, so he could mount some other accessory.

I just think people are lacking focus today. Like they may have the energy, the means, and the spirit, but they for whatever reason don’t do what they talk about.

Not doing something you talked about is anathema to me. I am ever fearful that I become like my neighbor or those like him. If I talk about something, I do it, live it, breathe it, etc.

My word is not my bond, rather my words are me, and I am my words. Speak then do.

To be accused of lacking follow-through would in my mind be the highest accusation that could be lobbied.

Everything I have talked about will be done. Years ago, I talked about:

1. Engine turning hand planes for fun and profit, testing a principle stated in a 1970’s benchwork book that engine turning makes iron rust proof

2. Inventing a new novel hand plane depth adjuster from a little known tractor part to alleviate myself from supply chain issues from Lee Valley experienced during the pandemic

Few have ever realized that by the time I start talking about something, wheels have been set in-motion that all but guarantee production.

Too many times have I been burned by people that talk but do not walk, and I make it a serious mission statement to myself that I will never be that person — that even if it takes me decades, I will do what I say and say what I do