Welcome to the gathering room podcast, the audio version of my weekly gathering room broadcast.

I am so sorry. We are going to have a gathering room, but not the one I had planned.

Eric, if you are out there, you're going to get a contact from my assistant very soon, and we're going to reschedule your interview.

And I'm really, really, really, really, really, sorry, it didn't work.

I don't know what that's about.

But one of the things that Eric talks about in his book, so we'll be doing this next week or the week after whenever we can

schedule it again. In this book, How Little Becomes a Lot, The Art of Small Changes

for a More Meaningful Life. Eric talks a lot about resiliency and resetting and coming back

after something hasn't worked. So I feel like his book has inspired me to keep on plugging with you this week and to look at next week

after that to have him to talk about this terrific book. All right. So in the meantime, let's talk about resiliency itself.

So I have been working away on something we're calling

the Wayfinder Business Lab. And because of that, I've been looking at the way people make a living

when they decide to sort of go off the beaten path. Like don't try to get a job job, but decide you're going to do what you love

and make the money follow in some sort of way. And when you look at folks who are doing this,

you find out two things. They're much happier in their lives than folks who feel like they've

sold their soul to the company store. That's one thing. And number two thing is

they have to be resilient as all hell. So I want to talk a little bit today about how you come back.

I mean, this is what I'm going to try to do right now. I try to do something. It doesn't work.

It's a failure. Okay. How do I salvage what is

best out of the wreckage of my plans or the, as I like to say, out of the shambles of my preconceptions?

So I'd like you all to join me in thinking about someplace in your life where you're living in the

shambles of your preconceptions. It could be something

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