A Good Marriage Makes Good Business Sense
Several years ago our small trucking company landed a new customer. The contract called for five of our sixteen trucks to begin running Just in Time routes for a local manufacturer. Because each route required a team operation we decided that I should come out of the office and into one of the trucks until we could get all five teams up and running. It took thirty-six weeks to get all five teams in place. Finally, I was able to come out of the truck and back into the office. Needless to say it was an extremely difficult time for our business but even more so for my marriage.
This was a dark period for our marriage. My wife was at home with three kids, working full time and struggling to keep things together. The cell phone helped but back in those days we were paying over a dollar a minute for roaming charges. We had some REALLY big cell phone bills. I can’t imagine how O/O’s from the past got along without cell phones.
Looking back it was probably the lowest point in our marriage. I was totally focused on keeping our contract (the contract did become a significant money maker for our company) and my wife was focused on holding herself and the family together. This caused little energy left to focus on our marriage.
In order to be successful in any business year in and year out you need to keep your life in balance. It’s easy for O/O’s to fall into the trap of totally focusing on running hard and losing site of other important areas of our lives.
To that end, Trucker Blog is beginning a series of posts from United Marriage Encounter (UME). UME, founded in 1975, encourages strong marriages through Marriage Encounter Weekends. The UME series of posts will give you concrete ideas and concepts to help you keep your spouse as the central focus of your life AND to help you keep running and making money.
We hope you enjoy this seris of posts. Be sure to let us know your questions or comments. To find out UME weekends in your area check out their website for dates and locations.
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