I received a card in the mail with no return address. I opened it and it was from my MIL. It was about good things. See it below.
But as with most greeting cards the real message was inside.
Now that and the little note were striking – in the process of “going for it” for me there have been obstacles, challenges, things that stretched me. My MIL may have remembered the holidays when we were staying in a hotel and instead of waking early after a late flight I decided to sleep in a few minutes longer before going down to work out. It was fortunate that I did because the police had just arrived and were securing the crime scene; the front desk manager had been murdered during a robbery. It was a horrific and shocking experience for the colleagues of the slain manager, the local law enforcement, the other hotel guests, and my family. Needless to say the hotel was shut down and we packed, left and bought a mattress and box spring and moved the family to my SIL’s house. There I ran my business from the kitchen table amongst the kids, the dogs, cats and rest of the family instead of the quiet hotel room I had planned. Several times getting coffee I would find a cat snuggling on the keyboard writing cat prose. It all worked out.
I ever remind myself about the 90:10 rules…. 90% perspiration, 10% inspiration and 90% solution focused, 10% (challenge, obstacle or yech, problem) focused. Just do what needs to be done.
And these latter items, the challenges and obstacles, I never ygo alone: I have God, advisors, mentors, colleagues, partners and family to help me if I just reach out and ask for the help.
So the difference between Good Things and Great Things I have decided really boils down to one thing. Be Courageous, which means doing something even though you may be fearful, because fear is just a fake feeling anyway, false evidence appears real, forget everything is all right, f*** everything and run. Today please have the courage to ask for help, it may make all the difference in the world.
