Chris Collins describes the personal challenge of finishing a leadership book that has taken three years, explaining he must work nights, weekends, and early mornings to complete it. He emphasizes negotiating and agreeing on those sacrifices with his significant other to avoid passive-aggressive conflict and to align expectations while pursuing the goal.
So I am writing this leadership book, right? Which is turning out to be pretty incredible. But it's been three years in the making. One of the goals is to finish that book. Now, do you write a book? Like, do I have the time to write a book every day of the week? Like, no. And so to finish that book, I'm gonna have to work some weekends. I'm gonna have to work some nights. For a while there was getting up at three and working on it in the mornings, right? So now if I'm talking to my significant other about this, and I'm like, so to finish this, I'm going to have to make some sacrifices. And we agree to those sacrifices. It completely avoids the passive aggressive, you work too hard. All that because we decided to do it together.
