Pick Up The Phone

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This week was a big week for me professionally!

Really big!

My plan was to talk about it in this week’s Saturday Note.

Last Sunday I was sitting in the Atlanta airport about to board a plane for the big announcement in Texas the next morning.

Before I got on the plane I received a call from Jim, one of my best friends and college roommate.

He and his wife Kimberly have been close friends for over 30 years.

We got in trouble in our 20’s together.

We vacation together.

We tailgate at University of Tennessee football games together each fall.

We have gone to concerts together.

Most phone calls with them involve them both being on speaker phone…you know the type of couple I am describing…and it is always nothing but laughs and love.

But…this phone call was different.

It was just Jim.

This phone call…was to tell me that Kimberly had passed away…unexpectedly.

She was only 50 years old.

I am not sharing this story for sympathy, everyone loses people they care about.

When I think back to the last time Kimberly and I spoke, it was at a tailgate in Knoxville last fall.

I am writing this in April.

Now, we have texted a lot since last fall.

Texts are not phone calls.

Here is the takeaway for you…and it is as blunt as I have ever been.

Pick up the darn phone and call someone you care about.

Today.

You are not too busy.

There is zero percent chance that you will regret it.

And there is a chance you will regret it if you don’t…

I can promise you that…