This month marks 8 years of running Ugmonk. As I was preparing for this milestone, I got thinking about how long 8 years really is.
It’s twice the length of my formal design education. It’s two presidential terms. It’s enough to get my infant son, who’s just learned to giggle, halfway through elementary school. That’s crazy to me.
I’ve learned so much in 8 years that it feels right to pause for a minute and reflect. So here are 8 lessons that stem from my time “in office.” I didn’t learn these things in school, and you probably won’t, either, but they’ve been instrumental in shaping Ugmonk into the brand it is today.
I hope they help as you navigate your own journey.
When I launched Ugmonk, I didn’t even consider myself an entrepreneur. I had no idea where it would take me. I simply had a passion for design and creating physical products, and I built a business around that. I learned (and keep learning) the ropes along the way.
If you’d told me 8 years ago that I’d be on stage speaking at design conferences or taking trips to Honduras to help the charities we would soon support, I would have looked at you like you were crazy. But those things started happening just a couple years in, and I’m so grateful for the opportunity to grow in new ways.
Ugmonk has stretched me in more ways than I ever imagined, but I’m incredibly thankful for these experiences that have shaped who I am today. I will never forget riding on the dirt roads through rural Honduras, and then getting to see the smiling faces of the kids we’ve been supporting through our charity drives.
Something happened once, so special, that it would never happen again. That something is time.
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