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Chris Larsen tells the story of a client who hit record revenue but missed his daughter's first marathon and son's graduation. He argues that financial wins can still be losses if they don't match what actually matters to you.
Chris Larsen tells the story of a client who hit record revenue but missed his daughter's first marathon and son's graduation. He argues that financial wins can still be losses if they don't match what actually matters to you.
I had one client who came to me and he had had the best year of his financially gross revenue, but he was crying because he missed his daughter running her first marathon. He missed his son graduating from university. He missed things. And I said to him, based on your goals, you won the game, but based on the rest of the stuff, can we agree you actually lost? He's like, yeah, I lost. I feel like I lost last year. And so we need to set these rules of the game and get super clear on the vision when that happens. Then can start stripping away some of the stories with all the, you know, there's a lot of tactics and strategies in the book in terms of stripping away the stories and replacing them. Rewiring. That's when people say, like, I don't know what kind of woo woo magic you put on me. You know, I got a W sitting in the, in the, you know, in the driveway. That's the beauty of these kind of quantum leaps. And that's what most of us are just playing the wrong game.
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