Sometimes it feels like you are the only one who cares about what you’re doing, mostly because nobody cares as much as you do, except maybe your mom. Being a founder and CEO can lead to weird sort of egotistical ‘poor me’. That’s a stupid space to spend any time, but I don’t think it’s an unusual place. Over the past couple of weeks I’ve found myself in that space a few times, and bad things come of it. It’s rabbit hole of isolation and resentment.

One way to knock yourself out of that space is to say thank you, a lot.

Monday morning I sat down at my dining room table at wrote thank you cards. I thanked an administrative assistant at MD Anderson who I always look forward to seeing and enjoy talking with. I thanked a VP of Pharmacy who loves my business, I thanked some people who gave me and Xpress another shot when they thought it wasn’t right for their institution, I thanked my children’s principal who led their school to top rankings. Then I addressed and stamped the envelopes and drove straight the post office to mail them.

I left the post office and thought more about all the people I appreciate. The scores of individuals who believe in my business, who have faith in me, who have my back – including my mother.

I am not alone, none of us are.

I had a good and productive day.