Monday, June 25, 2012

Making Good Use of Your G.P.S.?

         I must admit, I am hooked on the GPS feature on my phone.  The Global Positioning System is an awesome tool.  While I have a very good sense of direction and usually, after driving some place once, I can get back there on my own, still with all of the travel I do, it’s nice to have the option of getting from A to B with ease.
            A couple of days ago, one of my dear friends had planned to visit me after she wrapped up a business trip in Texas.  Two hours before she was to arrive, she sent me a text that read:
            “I missed my flight.  I think I’m gonna try to go straight home.”
            Two hours later, after unsuccessful attempts to get a flight home, she called.  In a detailed one hour account, she recalled her day.  She arrived to her conference late, had to walk from her hotel to the conference(which was further away than she thought), and missed the chance for group introductions, so she was quite flustered.       
       However, she made to the airport 4 hours early, with a chance to breath and make some follow up emails to her new connections.  She pulled out her laptop bag, plugged in the cord, and realized, HER LAPTOP WAS NOT IN THE BAG.            
            Panic knocked on her chest.  Fear tapped throughout her spine.  Sweat slid down her back.  Someone had stolen her life. (a.k.a. known as her laptop)  Before pandemonium took up residence, she got en email on her phone.  Someone from the conference found her laptop and planned to mail it to her.
            Since she had 4 hours to spare, she decided to leave the airport, rent a car, and pick up her laptop.  Following a few longer than necessary conversations with unhelpful rental agents, she made it back into town and picked up her laptop.           
By this time, she was hungry and she noticed a steakhouse attached the hotel.  She decided she would order a steak to go, and take it back to the airport with her. But…..     
       She admits she heard a voice telling her, she didn’t have time.  However, that didn’t make sense because she was only going to pick up a meal to go, and that way she did not have to stop on the way back to the airport.            
     What should have been a 15 minute order turned into 25 minutes.  When she got back in the rental car, she realized the time on the clock was actually 15 minutes behind the time on her cell phone, which was accurate.  She drove past the rental car return entrance on the way back to the airport, which meant she had to drive around the terminal again.  She was stopped at security because she forgot she had bottle water in her carryon bag. And…. 
           She MISSED her flight.
            If only she had listened to the voice of guidance telling her, she did not have time for that steak, perhaps she would have made that flight.  Instead, she was stuck in the airport all night.            How often do you use your G.P.S., or your Guidance Providing Suggestions?  We all have an internal G.P.S.  That voice that says, “do this,” or “get out of bed early,” or “stay away from that.”    
        If you pay close attention, like my friend, you will find yourself having a conversation with that voice.  The question to ask is, are you fighting against guidance or flowing with?  
            Are you making good use of your GPS?




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