Work meetings are to a business what GPS is to a traveler.
Each business has a direction and a target. The meetings keep us heading in the right direction to reach the target. Along the way, however, things change.
…People change, resources change, clients change, markets change, situations change, etc.
Without a meeting of the minds of those who run the businesses, it’s inevitable that their direction and ultimately, the target they hit, skew.
Work meetings discuss recent wins (so as to reinforce and double down on them), recent failures (so as to learn and adjust from them), upcoming events (so as to plan proactively for them), and overall strategy (so as to further improve and develop the actions taken by the team), amongst other things.
We’re all familiar, if not intimately so, with work meetings.
My question for you is: how familiar are you with family meetings? Spousal meetings? Muse meetings?
…Because just as work meetings are to a business what GPS is to the traveler, so too are family meetings to the family or spousal meetings to the spousal relationship or muse meetings to the art/creative gifts you share with the world.
Without them, deviations from the once clear direction and target become inevitable.
It’s nothing short of impressive how much time, energy, and resources we pour into work meetings.
…Maybe it’s time to appropriate some of that time, energy, and resource into other (assumingely equally if not more important) dimensions of our lives as well.