Good morning from New York City. If you’ve been listening to Dear Constance, even inconsistently, there’s this one thing you certainly know by now. It’s that I have a lifelong fascination with mindset, inspirational speakers, quotes and, generally speaking, the power of the mind and the subconscious and all of that. stumbled on something in LinkedIn by Daymond John from Shark Tank. Of course, his claim to fame goes far beyond Shark Tank. He’s a very successful entrepreneur and he’s been putting out some great material around mindset, financial literacy and accountability. He’s doing great work in general.

He told a story about a recent weekend that he had blocked out for work. He had envisioned this weekend of locking himself in his office and getting stuff off of his list his entire weekend was turned upside down and his post was about how incredible his weekend was. His wife was to be the godmother of one of their friend’s children, and unexpectedly they invited him to be the godfather. Because that happened, and it was coincidentally his anniversary weekend, he ended up renewing his vows with his wife. And they ended up having a great date night to celebrate with friends who were unexpectedly in from out of town. It was just one of those feel-good posts. But here’s what he said that really made me look twice. He said at a young age, he learned how to accept the unexpected. Wait, what we say, expect the unexpected. And he said, I learned early to accept the unexpected. I just love that. I think that’s something we kind of learned at a young age, one way or the other, from the adults around us.

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