One of the Most Powerful Relationship Hacks in Life & Leadership

I was five-years-old, standing in front of the one-hundred-person congregation of Fairview United Methodist Church. Each Easter, every child would give a short Easter speech or poem, and I was ready to give mine. But my mom, evidently, did not think I was ready to give mine. She was sitting in the front row and when I started my speech, she started mouthing the words to me. I calmly stopped my speech and said to her, “Stop doing that. I want to do it all by myself.”

 

I started over, but when I...