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Tip #8: Enjoy the Adventure
Tip #8 of 8 Tips for Building an Innovative Business and Life
Enjoy the Adventure!
A recent story on CBS Sunday morning was about a friendship between two men who are musicians in Nashville. Sometimes they got together socially with their families and they also wanted to see each other more often. Seven years ago, they made up a ritual to meet up for a moment and give each other a high five. They live 1 ½ miles from each other. One of the men sends a text to the other to signal, ‘time for a high five.’ They both go outside and walk a route where they will pass each other. When they do, they both clap, snap and high five. On most days, they do this ritual and keep walking. On sunny days, on rainy days, on windy days, they walk just to give each other a high five.
Andy Gullahorn, one of the men, talked about how devotion to a small thing becomes something bigger. It inspired him to write a song called, Small Things:
“Knowing small things matter
is really no small thing.
Knowing small things matter
changes everything.”
Early in our marriage, my husband and I created a morning ritual before he left for work. After breakfast, I would say, “Enjoy the adventure,” and we would seal it with a kiss. That small phrase was shared…
