A Day With MSPU - Managed Services and a Managed Life!
My last full day in California was invested in meeting some of the great folks at Managed Services education experts MSPU just down the street from Disneyland.
Erick and I spent the day together chatting about the state of the IT industry and managed services in general. MSPU is hands down the leader is helping guys like many of us go to market with the services that we have to offer clients.
I have known Erick for a couple of years now, he is a regular guest of my Small Business IT Radio Show, a member of HTG and a speaker at many of the same conferences that I attend. It was until this trip that I really got to know Erick and his family well.
Erick has been a “border buster” for me in my search for my next thing in my career. Thanks for your help bro!
It has been a rough mind trap, going through a transition usually is. Did I make the right decision? What if I fall flat on my face? What if this and what if that? I still sleep well knowing that I am doing the right thing for my family and I. The stress has been hard on them as well as me.
Maybe I need that Prozac!
Actually no I don’t, I just need peace and I need to put my trust is powers greater than myself. It is comforting to know that many entrepreneurs go through this exact same challenge.
I do notice that my concentration and focus is all over the map with all the thoughts in my mind these days, actually it has been this way for quite some time. Temper becomes short at time. Stress has a funny way of eating a man apart some days.
I chatted with Mom on the phone tonight as well, it is comforting to have her in my corner and yes even for a 40 year old man. The comforts of Mom and a great wife are wonderful.
Seek out those that love you and if you haven’t told them in a while, make sure you do!
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Stuart,
I came across your blog by accident looking for some Managed Services resources to send to a possible new employee. All I can say is I feel you bro. We have just gone through a transition year that found me buying out my partner, moving into a new space for a possible joint-venture, working towards it for several months before canning it, firing office help that was making things worse, Buying Connectwise, deciding to move fully into managed services, now looking for new office space to finally put down roots and trying to decide how much I believe in our future success when everyone around me is running for the hills and yelling the sky is falling. I know these are the right moves, but the knowing is sometimes fragile. The pressure is great and I certainly can see how people turn to self-medicating. But, I think you are right in that you need to trust your vision and put the how into the hands of a greater power. Like I know I should sign the lease for a space a bit larger than I need, I know I should get on with signing for the Managed Service Platform, etc. It is very hard to concentrate on the work at hand when there are so many other distraction, worth or otherwise. I can tell you that stopping to breath once and a while helps a a lot. A quiet walk isn’t bad either. While I have people who love me too, I don’t find a particular amount of support there. I don’t think they understand the vision. And I really get tired of explaining it. I am trying to build a local support network of tech owners like me to work with professionally and personally. What I am finding so far is that it will probably be more of a drain on me than a help. Most guys seem to be heads down all day working for customers and not on growing, enhancing, stabilizing their business’s or working on their personal growth. Well, sorry for the book and thanks for letting me vent. Hold your vison in mind and keep the faith, you will amaze yourself.
Happy Thanksgiving
Dave