Michael and I view life a little differently. Many times over the nearly 30 years we've been married, while I'm busy identifying everything that went wrong, he is identifying the positives in every situation. I'm thinking about all the ways things didn't go the way we hoped they would, and he is looking at everything we learned. I'm rehearsing what we haven't yet achieved, while he is able to remember and keep in perspective everything we have achieved. I often get stuck in the weeds, while he usually remembers the big picture and can put things in context.
This past Thursday Michael and I had a podcast interview ahead of us with some friends in Austin to talk about our upcoming book release of Fulfilled: The Passion and Provision Strategy for Building a Business with Profit, Purpose and Legacy.
Recently I found myself in a room with 900 or so very enthusiastic people all gathered around a common objective, to build an online membership site in whatever their niche is. 900 or so entrepreneurial types who want to work for themselves, set their own agenda, find freedom from the normal 9-5 job, or perhaps just reach more people with their life changing product or service.
In our house there is a regular interaction between Michael and I. Most often it goes like this:
I discovered I made a mistake with a client recently.
It was a decent sized mistake with implications and significant consequences.
This photo depicts the feeling I had. Shock, disbelief. A sense of "I can't believe what I'm seeing.
A print job that needed to be delivered for an important conference and was hung up at the printer. Not their fault. My fault. 100% my fault. A simple mistake. No chance it could get there in time.
