Expanding Our Horizons

by David

Maybe every company has a launching point. A place from where you look back and realize that was our “ah ha moment”. The moment when we really conceived into greatness. The core of our websites were started nearly a year ago. The first year of bryghten’s existence has been about learning. We’ve built up and torn down sites. It’s been a learning experience.

Today December 25th, 2012 is the day I will look back and realize this was the day our vision, and core values made it’s way into fruition. This year has been a year of learning. A year of grasping what it is I want out of life and how I want my legacy to be remembered.

Life is more than keeping up with the Jones’, or being lifestyle independent just for the sake of freedom. Life is about leaving behind something amazing. Life is about empowering others to do amazing things. And allowing others to carry you when you need carried.

Life is about learning.

Gandhi is quoted as saying: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”, there’s some great truth to that. But how often in our lives do we live as if today is our last day ? None of us. Nor do many of us continue learning.

At bryghten we are devoted to learning, and to empowering others to learn. To expanding our horizons, and empowering others to do the same.

My father Ray S. Krug, was a man of legacies. A son of a coal miner, he was the first and only member of his family to graduate from college, and later became a dentist. His life was lived with education as it’s focus. And I’m proud to say that he passed that on to me in a matter of fact way that I will always cherish.

If it weren’t for my father I would have never become an internet entrepreneur. I would have never started and experiment as much as I did. I would have never taken chances. But he pushed me to learn, to keep learning, and to grow, to always be reaching for something greater. By the time I was 21 I was building websites and making a living online. Here 12 years later I’m continuing that legacy, and using it to make the world a brighter place. More importantly I’m expanding my horizons.

What does that mean ? The very name of our company ‘bryghten’ which explains very well our company’s core values. To bryghten the world. To make a lasting impact. To help expand others horizons was planted in my heart by my father, on one of my childhood walks around a lake by my house.

That’s what we are all about. I’m looking forward to growing bryghten this year, and excited to bringing on others who will share my core values, and help make a lasting impact in this world. At the core of bryghten is a desire to not make profits for profits sake but to use our profits to make the world better. So 25% of our net profits will be used to build schools. This is my gift to the world, and hopefully the legacy for which I will be remembered.