In a recent coaching session with Chad Wade, one of the most successful networkers in the nation, I asked, “What is the greatest lesson you learned while on this journey?” He answered without hesitation, “Learning to surrender.”   

Come with me to the summer of 2007. Twenty-five years earlier, we had explored the possibility of purchasing a family cabin. At the time we had five of our seven children. Anticipating spouses and grandchildren the cabin would need to accommodate about 30 to 35 people. I could see it, a cabin sitting on a mountain side constructed of 12” logs, small stream running through the property, and a panoramic view of a large lake. The dream was clear.