Success and Meaning

It is easier to make another page, message or clip. My experience keeps bringing me back to who needs it and why I am making it.

I could look successful in public and still give the people at home too little of me. I had to pay attention to what they were experiencing.

I wanted to build a bigger life. I also had to look at what I was letting that ambition excuse.

Writing The Tricycle Way did not finish the work. I still had to put the phone down, listen and practice what I had written.

I was keeping the work moving. That did not mean I had much left to give the people closest to me.

I blamed the customer for canceling our contract. Then I had to face the warnings we had ignored and the promises we were not ready to keep.

People questioned the time I spent making a weekly talk show. Messages from listeners helped me understand why the work mattered to me.

My ambition helped me build a technology business, a show and a book. It also asked more of my family than I wanted to admit.