{"id":414,"date":"2023-05-02T11:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T16:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2023-05-12T13:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T18:27:14","slug":"time-of-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/02\/time-of-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Time of Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In the fall of 2018, I began to think about what was coming next in my life.\u00a0 As I sat on the side of a mountain above Rosita, Colorado looking across the trees changing colors in early October the ideas flowed freely.\u00a0 Expand my consulting business. Accelerate the pace of software development on a project I was pursuing.\u00a0 Shift gears and try something different.<\/p>

Then a thought slowly crept into my mind.\u00a0 What about the conversation you had with your sisters about renovating a homestead cabin in the Rocky Mountains? It really was more of a joke; just kidding around trying to figure out how to create more bed space for a growing family to retreat to in the Rocky Mountains.\u00a0 The conversation was more like “Why don’t you do a remodel show on television and fix up the Wagon Wheel? You could be the next Ty Pennington.”<\/p>

The longer that initial conversation went on, the more absurd (and humorous) it became.\u00a0 But in the moment, the idea grew larger and larger.\u00a0 Was it even possible?\u00a0 Could I create a show that gave a homestead cabin new life?\u00a0 Could I sell the idea?\u00a0 Where do you start?\u00a0 After all, my “production<\/em>” experience was in podcast productions and post-production work.<\/p>

Then the idea was gone.<\/p>

As I continued on my journey that week throughout the Wet Mountain Valley, the idea never crossed my mind again.<\/p>

But good ideas are hard to keep hidden away.\u00a0 Somehow they always come back around.\u00a0 A little over two years later in the middle of the COVID-19 lockdown I once again was thinking about the future.\u00a0 This time I was back home in Oklahoma.\u00a0 After a conversation with a neighbor, I was sitting on my deck drinking a glass of wine and contemplating what was next in my life.\u00a0 The pandemic had brought my consulting business to a complete standstill; hard to assist companies with process and quality improvement efforts when you can’t be onsite.\u00a0 My business model had been build on the premise that you can make employees lives easier; you can truly help people in the workplace which in turn makes their whole lives easier and less stressful.\u00a0 But the concept relied on being onsite working hand-in-hand with management and employees to find the waste in their jobs\/processes and eliminate it.\u00a0 This is part of who I am; helping people.\u00a0 It stems from my faith as a Christian.\u00a0 And all I had going for me during the lockdown was helping my church helps others during those stressful days.<\/p>

\u00a0And then out of nowhere, the Wagon Wheel cabin came back into my mind.\u00a0 You need to diversify.\u00a0 You need to find a new path forward.\u00a0 What can it be that still helps people and creates a new path forward.\u00a0 Could a show focused on saving a single cabin be a reality.\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Of course not.\u00a0 But what about if you built a show around restoring homestead cabins, houses, barns,\u00a0buildings,<\/span>\u00a0and other historic and\/or legacy structures?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

And so the idea was out there.\u00a0 Can it be turned into reality?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Time of Discovery The Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado \u2022 How the idea for Rocky Mountain Restoration began \u2022 In the fall of 2018, I began to think about what was coming next in my life.\u00a0 As I sat on the side of a mountain above Rosita, Colorado looking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_header_footer","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-journey"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"mark","author_link":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/author\/mark\/"},"rttpg_comment":4,"rttpg_category":"The Journey<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"A Time of Discovery The Sangre de Cristo Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado \u2022 How the idea for Rocky Mountain Restoration began \u2022 In the fall of 2018, I began to think about what was coming next in my life.\u00a0 As I sat on the side of a mountain above Rosita, Colorado looking…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/restorationrockies.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}