So, being in HR, I don’t get a lot of interaction with our clients. Occasionally I answer the phones, schedule a few appointments as a back-up person, etc. But this past week I was appointed to take care of our special clients from Mississippi. So I made a special sign for them, you know, the type that limo drivers make so their clients can figure out with ride is theirs? I’ve always wanted someone to do that for me, so I figured they’d probably love it. Can I just tell you, those brief hours with them were some of the funnest that I’ve ever had in a “work” activity. They were both so full of life, and so in love after 18 years of marriage. Meeting these clients and listening to their philosophies of life, I knew they fit right in to REIC and the culture that we try to develop as a company and through our coaching sessions. This particular client is literally a jack of all trades Renaissance man and he has the perfect woman who supports him in everything. He has the biggest gee-whiz collection I’ve ever seen! He knows how to call alligators, build furniture, captain a boat, scuba dive instruct, drive a semi-truck and he’s even written a book called “The gods We Are” (to which, I received a signed copy!).
As I read his book, one thing stuck out to me the most that he wrote:
“Are we getting all there is out of life? Are our marriage, our children, our job, our dreams, and ourselves what we want them to be? Or do we sometimes look at the other person wishing that somehow we could be like them as far as their success in life is concerned? Do we sometimes feel as though our backs are against the wall and there is no place to go? Well, you don’t have to be that person anymore. There is a God-given power that exists and you don’t have to do anything to get it—it’s already programmed inside of you: All you have to do is turn it on!”
Genius. Thanks Steve and Charlotte for the best Wednesday and Thursday I’ve had in a long time J
