A Funny Thing Happened The Other Day

I woke up one morning and realized that I own a company…a very small company, but a company nonetheless.

 Now, of course I have known that I have been running PondRocket for almost a year now, but sometimes you get caught up in the grind and lose focus of the significance of what is going on around you. It is kind of like that feeling you get when you look at your 2 kids and say “holy crap…I’m a dad!”  You’ve been parenting all along, but for some reason it just hits you one day.

I have to say that I thoroughly enjoy owning this company. Introducing and growing a new hockey brand has definitely been challenging, stressful, educational and inspirational. Recently, times have been a little more stressful than usual. Life has a funny way of cross-checking you in the mouth just to see if your head is in the game. And that stress can build after a day or 4 without selling a single piece of apparel. You start to wonder if you’ll ever sell anything again. It’s a multi-game goal scoring drought (I’ve never had one, but I’ve heard about them) and you start to think you’ll never find the back of the net.

And then, after you have  beaten yourself up a bit, someone comes along and passes you their hard earned money for PondRocket gear that you designed. That picks you right up and gets you out there for another shift!

I guess what I am blabbing about is that as tough as times have been lately, I love the fact that I own the PondRocket brand. And it would be impossible for me to stay in the game without the growing PondRocket team, including friends, fans and supporters. Thank you all!

At the end of the day I am grateful that I have a pretty cool gig…and I really can’t complain about my office either!