Close the Books: On Learning, Letting Go and Lighting Up

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  It's interesting.

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  There's this concept in business.

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  It's called closing the books, and it makes a lot of sense.

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  And it came up in a conversation that I was having with somebody who was a participant in the 2015 Good Life Project immersion program, which is this sort of seven month intensive, accelerated personal and business growth training.

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  We just had about an hour long phone call a couple of days ago, and it brought this thing sailing back to me, and during that call, but she basically took the hour to.

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  She wanted to kind of walk through.

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  She wanted to do this process with me.

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  Where we started out with the first moment that we met, dove deep into an intensive retreat in Costa Rica, and then time together in Chicago and then time at camp, and at each juncture along the way, what she wanted to do was kind of, like, explore with me and say, hey, listen, this is how I experienced it.

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  These were the things where there were big surprises and big shifts in expectation.

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  Here's where there were amazing awakenings.

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  Here's where I had to let go, and here's where I really struggled and where there were challenges, and here's how I moved forward and brought what I learned into the next experience.

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  And then she would move to the next one and the next.

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  And at the end of that conversation, she said, I really just kind of wanted to walk through this with you and share the experience with you.

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  And in my mind, kind of closed the books on this, and I started to giggle.

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  And she's kind of like, what's going on?

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  I said, it's kind of funny that you mention that, because I had been planning on actually creating just a final good life project riff called closing the books.

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  So it's funny that you actually just walk me through this process and then use that exact phrase.

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  And if you've never heard the phrase before, it actually comes out of the business world.

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  And it's an accounting phrase originally, and it's basically what you do at the end of every year in business, or even in your personal accounting, is that you kind of look back over the course of the year, and you ask a series of questions.

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  You say, okay, let me look at the expense side of the equation, the debit side of my books and my finances, my accounting, and what are all the things that I spent money on?

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