We read a line in a post by Seth Godin, quite a few months ago, that I wrote down on my war room wall: When in doubt, be human. I don't even remember the exact story he told to explain what he meant by that, but he spoke of how we often try to deal with work related things in ways that might be deemed 'professional' but might lack empathy or compassion or simply 'human-ness'.
We were laughing today at how different mine and Julie's personalities are. I tell EVERYTHING. I am an open book and I ramble, complain, rejoice and inform. Julie is more private. She shares, but discretely and only what she wants to share. The thing is, each of us are 'real' in own way and to force ourselves to be different would be somehow false. I am learning to shut up and she is learning to speak up as we get to experience more and more business successes. Best of all though (through this baby business and our relationship with all of you) we are learning what it means to be human. We thought we would be so much more professional at this point. We thought we would 'learn how to be successful'... It's funny to us that one of the biggest things that we are learning is, when in doubt, (simply) be human!
-Epp
