To me, I go through the different stages of dabbler, hacker, obsessive, mastery with different areas of my life as I get older and my kids get older.

I played golf in high school and I was a hacker for sure - I played because I was good enough to be one of the top 5 golfers but had zero interest in being the best. After college and getting married I started dabbling in golf again and it became competitive with my other friends to a point I was now obsessed and wanted to be the best one of our friend group. Then....kids. I have played two rounds of golf this year.

Same with something as simple as lawn care. When I was in college I never spent half a second admiring a lawn. Now, as I get older, I am competitive about lawn care and I want my friends to envy my lawn when they come over for a cookout so I spend time caring for my lawn (something that would’ve blown my mind only 5 years ago).

The biggest difference at this stage of my life is business. I am striving for that mastery level every single day. Just 3 years ago I was an employee who definitely cared but not to the degree of being a “master” running a business. I am assuming over the next 5 years certain interests will change from dabbler to obsessive and vice versa but it is definitely interesting to be aware as the stages come and go.

Keaton Turner
President

Turner Mining Group
555 N Morton St.
Bloomington, IN 47404
C: 812-345-2475
Keaton.Turner@TurnerMining.com