00:00 I always look forward to be able to look at where I want to be today.
00:04 And I don't think I care about people knowing on the day I die
00:08 is that I was a great mom and a great family member and a great friend.
00:12 I care about that more than I care about anything else.
00:15 And it's interesting because people come into your lives,
00:17 you know, and they teach you things and you listen
00:19 and then you integrate those things.
00:20 One of the things I was most impressed about
00:22 when Bill and I met Warren very early on
00:25 was he introduced us to his friends.
00:28 And Warren has the most high-quality set of friends you could meet.
00:33 And these are friends that he's had over his lifetime.
00:37 And it really got me thinking,
00:39 "Wow, I better cultivate my friends."
00:42 I had good friends, but cultivate that network of friends and keep them close.
00:46 And Warren does little things with his friends,
00:48 like he'll send you an article of something he's thinking about
00:51 or reading about or something.
00:52 And it's an easy way.
00:54 What I started to realize is I have friends all over the world,
00:56 but those little touch points that you do
00:58 when you can only see somebody a couple of times a year...
01:01 Or Charlotte, I get to see at least once a week, which is a nice thing.
01:05 So that was a way to help me think about my friends.
01:08 And then family, there's a person who helped me in the business community
01:12 that's helped me with some leadership consulting
01:14 and even management of the foundation.
01:15 And he has two older sons.
01:17 And when I was really struggling with three young kids,
01:20 the foundation growing, we're changing CEOs,
01:22 he just said to me, he said, "Melinda,
01:24 you don't get a do-over with your kids."
01:26 I was like, "Yeah, you don't get a do-over."
01:29 And so the foundation is a marathon for me and not a sprint.
01:32 And I always have to remember at the end of the day
01:34 that my kids come first.
01:36 And somehow those messages just have really stuck with me
01:39 and then I just work to balance it.
01:41 And some weeks I get it right and some weeks I get it wrong,
01:43 and then you just have to forgive yourself and keep going.
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