My Business On Purpose

In about a year from now, Business On Purpose will celebrate its 10-year anniversary. The statistics range, but it has been said 96% of businesses never see their 10th birthday. When milestones and thresholds are crossed over questions begin peppering your inbox searching for the “secret to your success” as if there is a singular ingredient that concocted the cake that now stands in the display. It may be worth noting that success is not a given destination and instead is a manufactured line that we cross of our own making.  Ashley and I have been married since 1998 and while we celebrate the miles we have traveled together, we know that that are another 50 years yet to explore and the path we laid in those early years is not representative of the path we actually took. I once read a quote by Seth Godin saying, “I am an overnight success and it only took me 14 years to get here.”   Father Richard Rohr remarked, “This journey is a spiral and never a straight line”. When asked to share our story and background