Off The Record I Went To Surprise My Husband At Work — Then His Colleague Asked Me One Question

“In the car. In March. She wasn’t even upset, that’s the — she said it like a weather report.”

“You remembered that.”

“Of course I remembered that.”
What I Told Him

“Then start telling me the things you remember before you build a solution around them.”

He nodded.

“That’s actually the whole thing, Ben. That’s all I’ve been saying for a week.”
The Next Morning I Went Out Alone

I toured a shared workspace near the river.

I asked the woman at the desk about the local vendor scene, seasonal demand, what kinds of events people book out there and when.

I got the names of two florists and a caterer.

And while I was standing on the sidewalk outside, a client called about a delivery problem for a corporate event back home, and I solved it in eleven minutes from three thousand miles away.
What I Learned That Morning

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