The most important investment you can make.

Colleagues,

MVP: Stop spending time with people and instead invest time with them by making memories.

Sometimes I spend time with people, like when I am in a meeting that doesn’t matter. We are all in the same room but we aren’t growing or communing together.

More often, I invest time with people.

I began the week by sharing the most important thing I have learned: it is all about people.

If it is about people, then every interaction provides an opportunity to enrich our lives by investing time with a person, or detract from our lives by spending time with a person.

Please consider being more intentional with your language. Invest time with others.

Closing out this week in a wonderful way, I invested the first few weeks of June with my 91-year-old mom and my 31 year-old daughter, and of course with Pam. 

The interesting thing is that in using the term “investing” as I thought about the visit, I became much more intentional about making memories and appreciating each moment.

Today’s intention: be intentional, invest time, and go make some memories this weekend!

Cheers!

Frederick