@russellruffino: Founders get very good at managing what people see, and the people at home are the one audience it never works on. Your team gets the composed version. Clients get certainty. Peers get the highlights. Most of that is appropriate. Somebody has to hold the line. Home is different, because the people there aren't reading your words. They're reading pace, tone, how you unload the car, how long you stay on your phone after dinner. They have been calibrating that instrument for years and it is accurate. So the month arrives at your house whether you report it or not. What makes it hard on them is the missing context. They get the weather with no forecast. A heavy week feels like distance, and distance with no explanation gets filled in with something worse. Often they assume it is about them. Two things help, and neither is a long conversation. Name the month out loud once a week. One sentence. This one is heavy. This one is good. This one has a decision in it I haven't made yet. That is enough for people to stop guessing. Then tell them when it lifts. Founders broadcast stress by accident and recovery not at all, so the house stays braced long after the thing has passed. There is a version of success that costs your family more than it gives them, and the cost usually shows up as living with somebody whose inner weather they have to interpret without help. The people who read you best have been paying attention the longest. Give them the actual information. They earned it. #founders #ceomindset #businessowner #entrepreneurmindset #coachingbusiness #womenentrepreneurs

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