Billy Sticker describes how he almost said no to his son Brendan's request to attend a drum convention in Chicago, then realized he could schedule a client visit around it instead. The shift from automatic refusal to intentional yes created a win for both his business and his son's experience.
Sometimes as parents, we say no because it's convenient and it's easy. Brendan asked us one time, he was like, hey, Dad, he's like, do we have clients in Chicago? And I'm like, okay, what's the question behind the question here? I'm like, yes, we have clients in Chicago. What's going on? Well, there's this drum convention and I was just thinking like if we needed to go see some of those clients, maybe we could schedule it around this drum convention and How easy would it have been for me to say no? But how easy would it have been for me to say yes? And what is that gonna do for him? Right? It's like, you know what? Absolutely we can do this. It'd be good for me to go see those clients, and it totally supports him, right? And it was just a great, a great experience. And that's a good example. Sometimes we say no just because it's easy.
