View from the Summit

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Balancing business and family is tough to do right.
Is yours worth the effort? I bet it is.

How do you view family? Is it a meaningful relationship overshadowed with love and compassion? Or, is it an agonizing experience filled with criticism, dishonor and rebellion? 

• Where else but family can you go to talk about the difficult things - where nothing is "taboo"?
• Family is the place where kids can ask tough questions and get honest answers... like, "I don't know, go ask your mother."
• Family is the place where a husband and wife can be vulnerable AND totally accepted just as they are.
• Family should be the place where people are treated like friends

Do you really believe?

Do you really believe in what you’re doing?

Is your occupation fulfilling? Do you have a purpose? Is what you’re doing on a daily basis having an impact on your family and friends? If not, why not? Stop. Take 5 minutes right now and perform your own personal assessment. Is the job you have really what you want to deal with going forward?

At the beginning of my career in 1978 I felt a partnership was the only way I could get started.

 

I had limited resources and limited options. Or that is what I thought? I was 18 years old and very eager to start. Looking back I have few regrets but many words of caution...

Here are a just a few:

• Do you and your partner have similar ideals?
• Are your core values the same?
• Does integrity, honesty and character take first position?