Thursday

Today is a weird day; mainly I suppose because I haven’t been in the store all day; which is unusual. I had to go down to the Springs today, and I rarely ever leave Monument. My intention was to drop off an envelope to someone and pick up another envelope from someone else. What happened instead was that I had a lengthy meeting and lunch with a client.

I’m not sure how to comment; suffice to say it was positive, and since I can’t seem to find words to write about something I’d like to write about, I guess I should take it as a sign that I’m not ready.

I have such a unique relationship with my clients, I suppose I always have been that way. When I was in “book mode,” I approached it from the standpoint that a book was to an author as a child is to a parent. Some of these authors had dreamed and worked on their books most of their lives. It was something sacred to them. My approach isn’t exactly the same with clients. There are just two things that are paramount to my being able to successfully market their product or service: first I have to believe in whatever it is they are selling; second, I have to be able to feel completely comfortable speaking my mind. There can be no animosity in these relationships or I am not effective.

Thus, I’m not great about keeping business and personal separate. I do to a certain extent, but often I end up being friends with clients who have left their businesses or retired or what have you. I stay in contact with them for years.

After I left the meeting, I had a couple of hours to myself. I ran several errands and was visibly agitated by the intrusion of emails and phone calls. One might ask why I didn’t simply turn my phone off. The answer is simple, I am a mother of two young boys, I never turn my phone off.

It is a reflective day, I need more of these.