Interstate 15 - Yermo, CA
The experience I'd had that morning with Jt in St. George, UT was still very much with me as we crossed back into California (Hell-ooo Cali!) on the last leg of the quest. The Pole Fitness stop in Vegas provided some physical and comic relief, but the fact was the loss of my niece 2 1/2 short years ago had moved itself from the back of my mind to the place where it was almost all I could think about, as we were swiftly approaching the scene of the accident on I15.
One of the tricky parts of this trip, and this blog, has been separating what's personal from what's business. But the message I'd gotten from the stop at Jt's had cleared things up a bit. Our wonderful tagline is "Love your business." And everything I’d experienced in the previous 2,700 miles, a dozen states, and well over a dozen Client meetings proved that line to be smack-dab in the bulls-eye of reality in the field. Our Clients most certainly love their businesses, and their practitioners love their jobs, and their customers love them both.
That love is about a lot more than business. With them, it’s personal. There’s no way to separate it. And with MINDBODY, it’s personal. And with me, this quest was about to become personal as well – as personal as it gets. I saw a sign somewhere alongside the road in Nevada that said, “Expect the unexpected,” and a sneaking suspicion that it was speaking to me was unavoidable.
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