{"id":9759,"date":"2009-09-14T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=9759"},"modified":"2009-09-14T09:57:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T16:57:26","slug":"im-drinking-more-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/9759\/im-drinking-more-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m Drinking More Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late this Spring, I came to the realization that my life wasn’t in enough upheaval, so I decided to give up everything and move back home to Texas to be closer to my family and aging parents.\u00a0 My trip to visit my parents while my dad recovered from surgery in April made a much larger impact on me than I realized.<\/p>\n

Family matters.\u00a0 Life is short.\u00a0 Carpe Diem.<\/p>\n

… and let’s face it, my business was in the toilet and I’ve been toying with starting my own Web 2.0 endeavor so what the hell.\u00a0 Texas here I come.<\/p>\n

It’s been more than 2 months and I am working on my business plan. \u00a0 I have a\u00a0 lot more free time, so I am reading a lot.\u00a0 I am enjoying seeing my folks, my brothers and sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews, but surprisingly, I’m having difficulty reconnecting to my home town.<\/p>\n

I finally started reading The Fountainhead and I am looking forward to reading Dan Brown’s new book, but one book in particular that I just finished has really made me think about the process of really starting over – starting over is tough.<\/p>\n

The book Three Cups of Tea<\/a> has profoundly impacted my process of starting over and reconnecting.\u00a0 It’s about the power of relationships – deep, meaningful relationships.\u00a0 Relationships that truly transcend our differences and forge\u00a0 bonds because of our shared experiences and common purpose.\u00a0 If you haven’t read the book, needless to say, I highly recommend it because I believe it has remarkable relevance to how we value and maintain relationships in our business and personal lives.<\/p>\n

In the book, the significance of sharing tea with a person is a deeply routed cultural experience with profound meaning.\u00a0 The more one shares tea, the stronger the bond.\u00a0 Connecting and reconnecting with people is all about building, nurturing and maintaining relationships. \u00a0 Building a relationships begins with a common purpose or shared experience, but to maintain it and for it to become valuable, it requires nurturing.\u00a0 How much time do we really, truly devote to the nuturing of our own relationships?\u00a0 Not just our business relationships, but our Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Late this Spring, I came to the realization that my life wasn’t in enough upheaval, so I decided to give up everything and move back home to Texas to be closer to my family and aging parents.\u00a0 My trip to visit my parents while my dad recovered from surgery in April made a much larger […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-flourishing","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1749,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1749\/connect-the-dots-whos-buying-whos-selling-and-what-is-being-sold\/","url_meta":{"origin":9759,"position":0},"title":"Connect the dots: Who’s buying, who’s selling, and what is being sold","author":"Teri Lussier","date":"August 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Mind if I tell a story? 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