I am a corporate employee, a father of three, and a man who has spent the last twenty years learning things the hard way.
This blog is a collection of stories from those years. The mistakes. The patterns I did not see until I had repeated them. The moments where I handled something badly — and the moments where I faced the same situation years later and got it right, because I finally understood what I had missed the first time.
I am not writing this as someone who has it figured out. I am writing it because I wish someone had told me what I know now when I was 25. And because if you are 35 and living inside the consequences of choices you made before you understood them, I want you to know that someone else is in it too.
This is not advice. It is a lived experience, shared openly.
— Martin Masters