The Greatest Gift
My wife has been suffering from a lot of pressure lately. Her choice. But that doesn’t make it less real for her. She’s up tight about stuff that’s important to her. Family. Work. Me.
You can imagine what that does to our relationship. Tension, picking on the wrong stuff, mountains out of moles hills. And one of my natural tendencies which gives me some perverse pleasure is a good word fight.
I know what to do to help her. I can fix her. Just listen to my sage advice and you will be set free and your organization will grow and prosper. You will even get closer to God.
She hates that. Even when I am right, which is less often than I would like to admit here.
I married up. She’s smarter than I am. She’s much better at relationships and she’s a better leader because of it.
I’ve just read more books and done more “consulting”. So I am more practical, more objective, more end-goal focused. I am good at seeing the forest without getting distracted by the trees.
She doesn’t want the gifts I am forcing on her. What she wants is the greatest gift any person can give to another. Presence. Listening.
And somehow she always figures it out, makes it work and the organization grows and prospers.
