Busted

I talked with my wife today, and she busted me. She said, “Otis, I read your blog post. Would you like some feedback?”

“Of course!,” I said. Actually, it was a little more hesitant than that, LOL!

She reminded me that on this new blog, I was going to focus on becoming a leader and sharing that journey. Not on being an evangelist, LOL! So, since it is all about learning, I am going to do what is technically called a “do-over.”

Therefore, let it be known for the record that I just did my first “face plant” on my own blog, LOL! I’m a snow skier. When you go straight over the tips of your skis and smack into the snow, that’s a face plant. Face plants happen so fast you don’t have a chance to finish a full sentence like ‘Oh, s___!” You’re lucky to get to the comma on that sentence before impact.

A really bad accident, where you basically tumble like a raggedly Andy doll on PCP, jettisoning every piece of equipment off your bod… well that’s called a “yard sale.” And in that slow-unfolding type of wipe out, you’ve got some time to think about the impact. This was definitely a face plant. It happened so fast I wasn’t even aware that I was about to eat snow.

So I’m wiping the snow out of my googles, looking around casually to see who noticed, and I’m going to do a do-over. I am going to leave that prior post and not delete it, but now I am going to post again. Sharing my experience of the exercise I am going through without encouraging you to do it for yourself.

I love you, Sara. You cannot believe how much I feel your support on my journey to becoming a leader. So, in the words of a Kiwi ski instructor who ‘pushed’ me off the ledge at the top of my first double diamond,

“Let’s give it a go, shall we?”