We just got an email from one of our Gamers:
Hi Ed & Liz,
Thanks for checking in. It’s been hard for me to measure any enhanced level of connection or effectiveness with clients. My coaching business has been off to a slow start this year with a number of meeting postponements and engagement delays. I’ve yet to meet with two of my better clients this year but do have meetings scheduled. Again, hard to gauge a difference.
I took my wife to dinner Monday night. She had a tough day. And since I’ve become more aware and empathetic, I noticed and asked her out. She accepted. At the end of dinner, with little preface or framing, I asked:
Since I’ve come back from Arizona in January, have you noticed anything different about me?
Her answer surprised me. She enthusiastically shared a list noticeable changes:
- “You’re happier”
- “Less stressed”
- “Easier to work with/be around”
- “You’ve been voluntarily taking on a lot of little home improvement projects”
- “You actually bought flowers for Valentine’s Day” (we had given up on that since her cats always knock them over – once toasting a laptop) “I was floored.”
- “You’re not pushing back on wedding expenditures.”
- “I feel better (not apprehensive) when you enter the room.”
Perhaps I’m not quite as self-aware as I want to believe. 2014 was a good year. I thought I was in a good frame of mind to start 2015.
Apparently there’s been more to this New Game than sleeping better, having a great vacation and predicting basketball results. Not that there’s anything wrong with those.
I can’t really describe a difference since we spoke on the phone. I can say I am in a better place. I now wonder: “Who am I to judge?”
So, Thanks!
Naively yours,
Ted
I responded:
LOL Ted!
That’s why we tell you to ask your partners in life and biz 🙂 Us ‘A types’ are always pushing so hard, with so much vision and expanding vision that we can’t see how far we’ve come!
I am so glad to hear the difference LNG has made. I have a feeling that if you celebrate it a little, those delays may fix themselves, or you’ll find that they were not delays at all, but timing that is working out to the best.
Thanks for checking in with these results Ted 🙂
Woohoo for Ted!
Liz
PS If you’d like your partners and loved ones to see this kind of change in you, Check out https://lifesnewgame.com/lngexclusive right now!