Over the past weekend, I was in Arizona and I was going to speak to a large group of single

adults from ages 30 and above. And let me just tell you that I've done a lot of speaking in my day

and on these types of events, I just make an assumption that the event starts at 7 p.m. So I

truly assumed that the presentation was at 7. Now, why?

Well, just because, and thankfully the organizer of the event texted me at 445 and said,

Hey, I'll see you soon. Now, let me read you the text that followed. So 446, I respond back,

absolutely. 7 p.m. I'm assuming, hoping, guessing,

ha, ha, I realized that as I scrolled through our text that I have not seen a time. So I really

hope that that's the case. I'm a little over an hour from Casa Grande, where the presentation

was going to be held. At 4.1, so five minutes later, I text

back after not hearing anything. And if you don't mind just confirming that it is at 7 p.m., that

would be great. Then seven minutes later, at 458 p.m., I say, so we're planning on leaving here at 5.30,

so I should be there around 6.40. And then at 5 p.m., I say, so we're planning on leaving here at 5.30, so I should be there around 6.40.

And then at 5 p.m., the organizer gets back to me and says, no, you're on at 6 p.m.

So we're an hour away, and we're hanging out with my daughter and son-in-law. We're in sweats.

And as I mentioned, we're an hour away. It's

five o'clock. The presentation starts at six. I flew to Arizona to do this presentation,

and a lot of people are coming. Now, here is where I feel like years of mindfulness and

meditation and building in that pause just kicked into high gear. So I said, hey, we need to get

dressed and we need to be ready. And my wife and my daughter and my son-in-law were amazing and said,

all right, we can do this. We can be out of here in five, maybe 10 minutes max. And everybody

jumped up, got into high gear. And here's the next text that I send.

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