The two "A/s" in Success

I can spell success and I know that there are no "A/s" in the word. However, there are two things that one must do to be successful. One has to be able to adjust and be adaptable to get to our goals. I had a personal experience this past weekend that illustrates this in a simple way. My wife and I were driving our daughter to a friend's party. Since we were unfamiliar with the area I did a Mapquest. Also being eager to try out my new toy we brought along our new GPS system. Enough back up right? Well here is what happened. About 5 miles from the location we came to an orange sign. If you are in the states you know that that is not a good sign, no pun intended. In any case this sign read "bridge closed three miles ahead." My daughter and I urged my wife to drive on anyway in hopes that the destination was within the three miles. Well it wasn't. We could see the road we needed continuing beyond the construction but there was no clear path around the construction. We retraced our steps and the GPS found an alternate route but by this time my wife had had it with the GPS, the Mapquest directions and the girl’s mom on the other end of the phone who could not seem to give us clear directions around the construction. By then the tension in the car was thicker than zero visibility fog. I offered to drive from that point and when my wife did not take me up on my offer I thought it best to keep my mouth shut and sit back for the remainder of the ride. Well, my wife decided to try and figure it out herself and ended up using the alternate route that the GPS suggested anyway. So you see even with back up plans, a GPS and Mapqiuest directions we had to be adaptable because they did not pick up the "obstacle" (construction) in our path. So stay open to adjusting and be adaptable and in my case stay quite. Things always work out. I like the way Dr. Maxwell Maltz describes it in his book Psycho-Cybernetics. He talks about that cybernetic mechanism that we all have which is like a modern missile that adjust course along the way to the target but always finds the target.



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