We had dinner tonight with some friends we had lost touch with for several years. We didn’t mean to drift apart. It just happened. Life gets busy, you don’t talk for a few months and then it almost becomes embarrasing. How do you reconnect again after years have gone by.
In our case, we reconnected because my daughter said we should. The family came up at the breakfast table. She scolded me for keeping usconnected. I took it to heart and called them the same day to see if they would come over for dinner. They accepted and I was surprised to hear even all of their kids, including one in college, were excited to get back together.
I was wondering how the kids would react, would they still have anything in common after all the years? Within 15 minutes of their arrival, they all went into the other room to talk and left us adults to ourselves. They were the ones dragging their heels when it came time to go. I was pleasently surprised. We vowed not to let another 4 years go by.
So what does this have to do with passion? I helped (in a very small way) push my friend to start his own business when he was laid off from his job several years ago. He was scared, like I am now, but he did it. He had found his passion and had the clientbase that believed in him, so it was an easy transition to doing it for himself instead of for someone else. Fast forward years later, he is very successful and enjoying the fruits of his labor. I am proud to know him and call him a friend.
And I learned something tonight about him. He is as indecisive and incapable of making a decision as I am. To listen to his wife describe it, he and I could be twins in this department. It was very comforting to me to hear that about someone I admire greatly and wish to emulate.
I have worried about my inability to make decisions quickly to be a major obstacle to having my own company. Now, hearing about his identical problem helps me think it may not be so impossible for me. It helps put that little fear to rest. I know it is something I am going to have to be aware of and work to overcome.
I will have to remember to look at the options and just make a decision. In most cases, it doesn’t matter that much and often can be corrected or adjusted in flight.
