Have You Ever Encountered a Red Door?

October 15, 2023

Last weekend I visited Savannah, GA and what a cool city it is. It was an Oktoberfest weekend and I had a great time, while sporting my Alabama T-shirt in South Georgia. I had fun sitting with a bunch of Georgia fans at one of the local sports bars, while watching college football, and discussing life.

While strolling around in one those beautiful neighborhoods seeing how “the rich people live”, I came across this red door and it caught my attention. This well-kept red door, on this older building with the numbers 340 on it, stood out among all those fancy homes, where the rich people live. They live well.

While driving home, I begin to think about the significance of the “red door” and why it caught my attention. See, red doors can represent a lot of things and have throughout history, like “opportunity”, and the list goes on and on. You can Google that one.

Have you ever walk down a long hallway, and all the doors are closed? Not one of those “doors” were open.

Have you ever walk down a hallway that had all doors were one colored except for one “Red Door”? Which door did you notice?

Life is a lot like a hallway, with a series of doors. We walk down it, knock on some, some open and some don’t. We walk through some and pass on others. Some are locked, some are not. But then, there are the “Red Doors”, those special doors that opened that one opportunity that changed your career or life, and it was opened for you, by someone else.

Leadership is like a doorway!

All of us in leadership have the ability to be someone’s “Red Door” at different points in our career and life. You never know when you might be that one opportunity that colleague, direct report, new hire, or young person just starting out in life, just might need at that moment, in their life. Don’t be locked.

What color of door are you? Do you need some new paint? Yes, that’s deep and we could camp out here for a minute, but we’ll leave that for another time.

So remember, motivate someone in a positive way today, knock on doors, be that “Red Door”, paint it, if you have to, and watch out for dragons. #bestlife50