Entry #5
The Weekly Journal
April 11, 2026
I’m going to be a full time photographer and videographer. I have to because I just quit my job. For the first time in my life, I put in a two weeks notice without having anything lined up. Never would I have expected to do something reckless right after having a baby.
Time with my family is extremely important to me. There are two or three days a week that I don’t get to see Ms. Mouse, and the only time Jess and I get with each other is a couple Saturdays a month. It’s just not enough. After telling a friend about my frustration of working all the time, and never getting to see the family, he said “That’s what dad’s are for.”
And I just don’t agree with that. I refuse to be a father who is not present for my kids, or a husband who doesn’t show up for his wife. The most important people in my life deserve to have me around to spend time with them. They deserve me at my best, not a fully exhausted grumpy stranger.
Truthfully, I haven’t been very happy at my job for a while. Not for any singular reason, but rather a culmination of things that have piled up over a couple years. Largely in part from my back pain. My body aches and hurts all over, but my back has been bothering me more and more. By the end of a week I can’t even stand up. Swallowing a handful of pain meds every day just to keep me functional doesn’t seem like a great long term investment. A couple monthly chiropractor visits keep me moving around – however swinging a sledgehammer or carrying lumber for a day puts me down for weeks. I’m very fearful that the pain is going to get worse and become unmanageable.
Working too many hours and doing too much physically should have been enough for me to look for something else. And yet I waited until my mental health had really taken a dive before doing something. Spending ten plus hours a day doing something that was making me incredibly frustrated was acting as a hole in the bottom of my cup. No matter how much I filled it with friends, family, and the things that matter, it wasn’t enough because everything would drain out the bottom due to this work sized hole. I started to recognize that I was out of alignment.
Once Rising Valor was started, and the value of that work was evident the misalignment in my life was becoming clearer and clearer. Finding so much purpose within helping others navigate their own mental health has given me such a strong sense of true alignment. Such a strong feeling of “yeah, this is what I want to do”
So I’ve got to follow it. As scary as it is to walk away from steady income and security, I feel that this is the right choice. It’s a leap of faith... but it’s one I make with trust in God to provide everything we need. Not only that, but trust in myself that I will find a way to make things happen.
I feel really good about this choice, and I can’t wait to share with you this bright future I’m walking into. (I’m still very anxious about it) Wish us luck. Follow along on RisingValor.net and on YouTube @RisingValorNation. Don’t have a good day. Have a Great day! I love you.
Logan S Williams
Rising Valor