Path to 1 Million Ep. 170: Making Tough Decisions; Update on Dad
People have been asking about my dad. This last weekend, a family situation came up that forced me to make a tough decision. Which turned out to be the right decision. Here's the story.
In this episode, I discuss
The Power of Why
Update on my dad
The family reunion
Transcript:
Good morning everyone. Welcome to the path to 1 million. This is going to be episode 170. I've gotten a couple of notes, a couple emails from people every now and then. People will ask me when we're trending on the phone, what the situation with my dad is. So I just wanted to just wanted to talk about that. And of course, when you know there's a onset of dementia or onset of Alzheimer's it's just a gradual decline, downhill. He's still doing fine as long as he's home and he's in his environment. He's actually quite happy. The good news is, is that my dad's kids are up from Georgia and they've been helping out with dad and mom around the house making like little repairs or you know, his daughter has been doing a lot of cooking, which has helped mom out a lot around there.
So at least I know that they're eating more than rice for dinner, which is always a good thing. But that was just something that you know, as we go by and I'm always asking how dad is doing and stuff and, you know, mom is you know, mom's keeping a stiff upper lip about the whole thing and stuff, which is good. She's kind of like become the de facto leader of the family. Of course, I can't imagine my, I can't imagine my mom not being the leader of the family, but, you know, she's the one that's making all the decisions. And speaking of decisions something came up this last weekend that I wanted to chat about. Obviously, as I said before, my mom is like super excited that I'm moving back to Michigan. Every time I talked to her on the phone, she is just absolutely astatic.
She's like, Oh, it's going to be so nice that you're here and I'm going to feel so much better and stuff. And I'm like, you know, it's, it's great. And I'm glad that they're excited. And she made a comment to me this last weekend that she was like all excited that they would, that, you know, we could spend Thanksgiving together. And when she made that comment to me, it didn't register right away, but I started thinking about it over the weekend. And yesterday I made a decision and what I wanted to talk about here was making these tough decisions. The thing is, is that, you know, like I said before, my dad's kids are up visiting from Georgia. They're helping him and taking care of mom and dad. And my dad also has a daughter who lives in the Chicago area.
And before in the past they would periodically take trips over to Chicago and spend time with the sister who lives in Chicago. So, you know, one of the things that I thought about was the fact that, well, if it's Thanksgiving and if my dad's kids are here, then they should go to Chicago. And of course this means that if I tell mom that, then we won't be spending Thanksgiving together. So, you know, one of the things I had to think about was, you know, how am I gonna approach this? You know, how am I gonna think about this? Because, you know, the thing is, is that when it comes to making these kinds of decisions, whether it's, you know, a tough decision or actually any kind of decision whatsoever, sometimes I have to revert back to my why and the why is the big thing.
You know, and my, my thing that I've said, whenever I've done these Facebook lives or I've done any of my writing or postings on Facebook or on LinkedIn has always been, you know, being able to define that why and why. And while I may not be able to articulate it using words, I do always have it in the back of my head. And my goal has always been to, to inspire people, you know, and live through example and to, you know, have them go beyond, you know, what it is that they think they can do or to inspire them to be better in their mind, body, business,