The Client Letter
July 11, 2013
Arizona
Cloudy 81 Degrees
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This late edition of the Client Letter starts off with a unique question:
What exactly is the mental state of an otherwise normal (usually) human being after a 27 hour drive with a bunch of kids and enough dogs to require special zoning for mobile kennel space?
Well, I can still think. I can read. I can type. No more blurry vision. The voices in my head are gone. So I’m good.
I learned something very important on the trip. Well, the lesson was presented to me at least. It remains to be seen whether or not the lesson sticks.
The lesson is this: I take life WAY too seriously.
I’m sure this has already taken years off my life. And it can really drive you nuts in your work with clients.
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Maybe it’s even happened to you.
ONE client issue grows so big in your mind that it completely clouds your ability to see anything else.
No more laughing, no more fun. Life stops. All you see is “the thing.”
You stop breathing deeply. You stop appreciating the fact that you are ALIVE. And you just exist as a one dimensional being completely obsessed with a single issue.
What happens when you let all of that go?
What happens when you decide to live and have fun anyway?
What happens when you picture yourself BIG and that client issue TINY?
Things get better, that’s what happens. Even though nothing on the outside has changed.
No matter how bad things get, you can still enjoy being alive.
I thought about this last night on that two lane road in Texas with no divider. It was pouring rain and I had a steady stream of trucks coming at me at 70 MPH.
You know what it feels like when a truck goes by that close at 70 MPH?
It’s such a force that it trips the “Thank You God” reflex as each one passes with room to spare.
No matter what you are facing in business or in life, you can still be grateful for the long list of everything and everyone you have.
And you can have fun doing it.
Gratitude is a magical thing. And it’s JUST like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.