Feelings of gratitude washed over me, choking me up this week. Once again, I was reminded that we don't walk through life alone. What makes a good life are not the easy times - it's the people who walk beside us through the difficult times, even when we are not at our best. In that way, my life has been enriched beyond measure.   My moment of gratitude came while reading the Acknowledgments of my book The Elegant Pivot, An Inspired Move for Navigating Corporate Politics. We are in the last phase of publishing the audio version of this book, which came out in 2021.   Turning my focus to reading this book for audio took less effort than it did for Dancing the Tightrope. Once I broke through the self-imposed problem of gulping - trying to take on too much at one time - it was natural for me to break things down to reading one sentence, then one chapter at a time.   Going back to read something I wrote 4 years ago was fascinating. Some of it I remembered like it was yesterday. Other parts felt like I was reading something completely new. When I revisited the Acknowledgments, I was reminded of the people who assumed positive intent about me, even when I was not at my best. Their grace gave me a way of finding a better path through solving difficult problems, and it also had the lovely side effect of deepening our relationship. These are ...