If you want to change the world, you must be your best in your darkest moments.

That's a quote or a paraphrasing of a quote from Admiral McRaven,

talking about how when things are the most difficult and we want to fold and collapse in,

it's when we are invited to be better than we've ever been.

And so recently, I got some feedback that it would be helpful if I delved a little bit deeper

into some of my personal life and just some of the vulnerability in my life.

So, you know, as a lot of you who listen know, I share stories all the time, but it's generally

to paint a picture and step out. And, you know, I don't want to make this about me. It's not about

me. It's never been about me. It's about us in using the little lessons and stories we see and come across to get better,

whatever better means to us. But I thought, you know, I will. I will unveil, pull back the

curtain on something that's been going on,

because this has, you know, not been an easy stretch for me for a variety of reasons.

And, you know, there have been moments where I have felt sorry for myself.

And, you know, nothing tragic or dramatic.

But, you know, in different facets of life, it's funny.

Like, sometimes, you know, when it rains, it pours.

The wheels fall off the wagon in a lot of different places, you know.

You know, I just recently got out of a relationship, not a terribly long one, but one that,

you know, had a lot of promise and potential and, you know, devolved into something not good

very quickly and, you know, that bummed me out on the personal front.

I had an assistant, again, someone I at one point thought very highly of, you know, run off with thousands of dollars.

Needless to say, that relationship is completely deteriorated.

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