Gratitude

I was dreading this past weekend as we were taking a red eye to Baltimore on Wednesday night and attending Sophia’s cousins wedding. It wasn’t that the wedding was bad, but it’s just a real long way to go for a weekend especially on a red eye. It ended up not being as bad as I had thought and the weekend overall was really fun.

My negativity and pouting the entire week ended up being worse than the actual experience. I think I often forget how lucky I am to be able to travel across the country, explore a new city and spend time with friends. I believe all this really comes down to gratitude. Instead of being annoyed that I have to travel on a redeye and go to Baltimore, I should be grateful that I have this opportunity.

We have today off for the U.S. employees for indigenous peoples day. It was a nice welcome day off after a few long weeks of travel. I’m going to do a bit of work, but use most of today to get caught up on errands and life.

As much as I want to spend most of today grinding, I know we have a gauntlet of events and things to do in the next 3 weeks with Techcrunch Disrupt and Money2020 coming up. I need to take the rest when I can get it.