An apology
My journey through Christianity was a long and complex one, some might even say, too long. While I am one of the first to recognize this, I never would have thought it could have such far reaching ramifications…
This past week I was sitting in a business meeting when one of my colleagues stood up and told us how the day before had been one of the worst days he’d had in a very long time. It seemed as though his customers were all difficult to deal with, his staff couldn’t do anything right, even his family was getting on his nerves. Then he went on to explain that this was all the fault of one of the members of our group.
He turned to me and said that I was to blame. I was horrified. What could I have done to possibly have caused my colleague to have such a horrific day?
He explained that he had bought my book and had begun reading it earlier in the day. He couldn’t put the book down. At 2:00am, my friend said, he was at a point in the book where I was still a Christian and he didn’t want to put it down until I had come back to Judaism. Apparently, he finished the book at 5:00am. My colleague had pulled an all-nighter reading my book! No wonder he had a bad day.
If this had been the only story like it, I probably wouldn’t feel obligated to post a public apology, but since it is only one of many similar stories I have heard, I thought it might be a good idea to take this moment to apologize to my amazing readers out there who may have lost a night of sleep, or a day of work because they just couldn’t put down the book. I’d also like to say thank you for purchasing the book and hope that in the process you would feel not that you have lost something, but rather, that you have been inspired.
I have been told that perhaps my book should come with a warning sticker:
Danger – this book may cause loss of sleep, distractibility and the inability to put it down.
(Don’t yet own a copy? Visit the website at www.comingfullcirclebook.com)
You’re so Vain
Someone once said, “If you don’t think you can, no one else will either.” This sort of echoes the sentiment expressed in the famous quote of Hillel in the Ethics of the Fathers: “If I am not for myself, who will be for me?”
Marketing experts know this to be true, counselors and coaches know it to be true, too, but most of us are not quite so sure. For me, the next part of Hillel’s famous aphorism hits much closer to home, “But if I am only for myself, who am I?” I have spent the greater part of the last 2 decades trying to become LESS self-centered, LESS arrogant, Less…well, you get the picture.
So here I am, an author and lecturer, a person with something to offer the world, and I have to sell it to them. If I don’t think they want to hire me, why should they think they want to hire me? So, I took the advice of my sage friends and business coaches and did a video promo.
Do you know how hard it is to talk to the camera and tell it how amazing you are? This is far more difficult than speaking to the most oppositional audience I have ever had to face.
Well, I did it. And thanks to my videographer Eli, I don’t think I come across too full of myself. You be the judge.
The Book
