Yeah, I think that's kind of a unifying concept across all this is that there are for sure, difficult conversations or difficult realizations to have in your practice or any kind of business. And it's easy to stave those off or ignore them, you know, live in denial. And you can't do that when you start seeing numbers and you're like well wait, you know, it's I mean, it's like there's a there's a joke, you know, the old story of like, we lose money on every sale, but we make it up on volume, you know, like, that's like the classic expression of the you're not going to make So it's like, if you can't find those places where things aren't working out the way you expect them to, or think they are, you know, it's easy to, you know, put them off or ignore them. But that's not what a good business owner should be doing. And you know, you'll be happier if you have the difficult conversation you need to have. And sometimes that means letting the person go. And, you know, I remember when I was a young attorney, it's a big firm, and I had a friend who came to work there. And we were talking about this problem. I wasn't yet in the position of having to do that, because I was not yet a partner. But he and his, his wife had a business. And he talked about how Yeah, he could never do that. So he thought that that his wife was good at doing it. I said, Well, how did she do that? And he said, Well, you know, she's, you know, she told me something that I've always thought about and makes a lot of sense. And the more you think about it, the more sense it makes. He said, she told me that she would tell people, Look, you're not happy here. And obviously, your performance is demonstrating it. So it's probably best that you find something that makes you happier, and you'll be happier. And then, you know, we'll find somebody who is happier here. And he said, so does that work? Like do they leave? They're happy? Well, no, not at first, you know, they kind of shrugged it off, but then they go away. And when they do find something if they are able to because some people are toxic and can't work anywhere, but some people, you know, many people go off, and then they find some of the things they're doing. And they think, you know, that was really great. When you told me I didn't make sense to me at the time, but I value it now. And they left. So there's a good feeling that will get generated when that person processes. And I've thought about that a lot since then. Because I know that that is a true statement. That is absolutely true. Like I was happier. When I left the firm to go out on my own, I'd been unhappy a long time. They weren't going to tell me to leave. But they could tell I was unhappy. And one day I just said, you know, I'm unhappy, and I left. And I was happier as a solo practitioner. And so sometimes you just need to nudge people towards the thing they really need. So if you look at it as I'm firing them, or I'm telling them they should leave. That's not the complete, correct picture. Yeah. So you just have to think about how to frame it for yourself. Right for them.
