Move

Moving

Moved

My family and I just moved to Philadelphia from San Francisco.  Although we did our fair share of packing, with a 10-month old in tow, we couldn’t do it all, so we hired people to help.  Essentially, we hired strangers.  They came in and wrapped, packed, and boxed our stuff.  Strangers placing their stranger hands on our most personal and intimate belongings, then other strangers placing their other stranger hands on the boxes packed by the first strangers and loading them onto a strange truck to then be driven across the country by a third set of strangers.  After spending several nights at strange locations along the highway, our boxed stuff arrived, to be unloaded by yet another group of strangers, into a strange house, in a strange new city.  And in the end, not a plate was broken, a glass chipped, nor an item lost.  That’s value.  Stranger’s added value to our life, and with that, we started creating our new home.

With each business encounter, there is the potential to move someone.  To be moved is substantial.  To be the mover is substantially more.  To be able to move someone is more than boxing, lifting, and transporting; moving someone is having the ability to add value to that person’s life.  And when you are able to add value to a person’s life, you are valuable as well.  And when both you and that other person are moved, than a truly meaningful transaction has occurred, and that’s the best business move you could possibly make. You can be the stranger who can carefully and respectfully reach inside and help transport that potential client or customer, that colleague or associate, to their desired destination.  Learn how to do that, and you’ll be creating value and moving folks for years to come.