Have you ever had this happen to you? You’re driving down a familiar road, approaching a split you always take and you keep repeating to yourself, “stay left” or “stay right” because this time you’re taking the other direction?
I had that the other day. Driving down the freeway I take going home, I needed to stay to the right to get to a training class. I’m thinking “stay right” and just as I get to the split my phone makes a notification sound I haven’t heard before. I pick it up briefly and put it back down. I look up and think, “I’m about to miss my turn” and zip to the left.
Yep. I took my normal turn and completely missed where I was going. I added a couple miles and several minutes to my trip. But that missed turn got me thinking.
How many times do we do that with things in our lives? We’re trying to improve ourselves, and a brief distraction knocks us off course. Maybe you’ve been trying to refrain from some rough language, and a moment of anger makes you slip. Maybe you’ve gone low-carb and without thinking, out of habit, you grab a doughnut at the office. The good news when this happens? Your goal hasn’t changed and your destination hasn’t moved. It just takes a little extra effort to make it there. As soon as you realize you are off-track, take the first exit and get back on track
Never give up. Never give in. Never quit.
This article was first published on September 3, 2015 and was recovered using AI and web.archive.org.
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