We are strange, and that’s why the ladies love us!

Seriously though, the reason that I grow my hair and beard out when I want to push myself towards something is that it is a really good motivator.  I can tie a string to my finger, but those fall off and get lost.  I could write myself a note, but I lose my todo lists and I keep those in our Project Management software.  The main reason is that it is always there, it is right up front, “in my face” (haha).

Recently I grew my beard out until we “launched” something at work. It was a fun way for myself and friends to continually be reminded that I haven’t launched anything yet. My beard was awesome.  Some (like my wife) would say gross, but I am sticking with awesome. I actually grew all of my “above the neck” hair out longer than it has ever been during the part of my life where I was paying attention to such silliness.

I have grown my facial hair out for another reason in the past, Movember. This is an awesome organization that raises money for research to fight Prostate Cancer. I have done this in the past two years, and this is where I got my idea for growing hair/beard for our product launch.

The product that we launched was 1TrackFind, a site for keeping track of music and artists that you want to remember to listen to later.  We have been working on it for a couple months, deciding what feature to put in and what features to leave out for now.  All this work grew me a mighty beard, and today I got to shave it all off – well most of it.

I included pictures of my beard shedding, just for fun.

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to be given the opportunity to go to CES, and to go with my wife and family as well.  We all had passes and were able to amble about the convention halls together grabbing up free stuff and selling our various wares.  Needless to say it was a ton of fun.