Using Data Over Emotions: Finding the Truer Story

One of my favorite podcasts is by a guy named Rob Bell. He typically talks about spirituality but, in one of his recent episodes, he spoke about how everything seems to be going wrong — how he’s frustrated with his friends, how the house isn’t clean, how some of his colleagues aren’t doing what he thinks they need to be doing.

At some point, his wife asked him a simple question:
“Rob, are you tired?”

To which he responded,
“Yeah, why?”

He then recounts their conversation, mainly about how — when Rob is tired — he has a tendency to make a mountain out of a molehill and feels like everything is tough and impossible and nothing goes well.

Rob later comes back and says, “Sometimes, we’re just tired. And that’s very much okay.”

I found myself doing something similar while I was on the road for GAN’s Momentum Tour. It was a wild seven weeks on the road, traveling every other week to somewhere else around the globe. During this travel, it’s not like all of my normal life stopped; everything with my family, with our company, and with my friends kept going. There will bills that needed to be paid, things that needed scheduling with my wife, and issues that needed to be addressed with our staff.