I know I have not giving you enough time to listen to the latest episode, Episode 35. But I have to tell you what happened after I was done recording the show.
If you haven’t listened to the show, I would suggest you go listen to it now, and then come back and read this post.
The show was really the first thing thing that went wrong that day. It seems that the whole day was screwed up! But still, just as the the song, Good Day from Natives of the New Dawn, “I don’t want to think about the bad days.” So despite all the things that have gone wrong today, I am happy. Happy that I accomplished the show, and that it is uploaded. Who cares that it is 8:30 pm PST and I am writing this from the airplane? I am listening the show, Episode 35, and I am just happy it is up as I write this.
So, I will probably talk about this in the next episode, but just in case I don’t I am going to share it with you.
The first thing that went wrong is that I was unable to store my huge luggage bag at the hotel. You know how you can check your bags and get them later? My plan was to check my bag on Monday, and pick it up on Thursday when I returned. There was no point in carrying all that clothes to Seattle for only three days. I knew I had to leave it behind. The only other choice was to leave it at work. But, that was a fifteen minute walk from the hotel. So I opted to leave it at the hotel since it was 8:00 am and I had a 9:30 am flight. Unfortunately, I was informed that I had to pick it up the same day.
“Shoot, that is not going to work!” I left my backpack and my duffel bag (what I was taking to Seattle) and quickly ran to work lugging my 75lb bag. In my mind I had to be back by 8:30 am if I wanted to make the flight. I arrived at work about 8:15 am and still had to make my way to the server room (the intended storage place for my luggage bag.) By the time I had everything taken care of, it was 8:20. Knowing that now I had less time then when I went to work I started to run. I ran at least 3/4 of the way. I received a phone call the last quarter and walked fast.
I made it by my expected time. But all that went through my head was “Yeah! This is really living 150%!” Here I am, awake for about 25 hours, no breakfast, and putting this stress on my body. Yet, I felt good. I really was “Hell Yeah, this is living!”
Well, I made it to the airport at exactly 9:00 am. Boarding had begun, and I could not find my boarding pass and was still outside the security line. “Give me fifteen minutes through security and I am fine.” Well, lucky for me I printed two copies and had the second copy safely in my bag. I got in and made just in time.
Yet, I arrived in Denver and had yet another mishap. The flight which was intended to leave at 1:44 pm was now delayed until 4:14 pm. “No problem,” I thought, “I’ll just work on some emails I have to take care of and work on the show.” I found a table near an outlet and set shop there. I took out both my personal and work laptop and worked away. A blessing in disguise. Sort of.
I was so into what I was doing, listening to the show, that I didn’t pay attention to the fact that my flight had actually been pushed up to 3:30 pm. At 3:30 pm I was gathering all my belongings and proceeded to find the terminal. I went up to see the schedules and didn’t find my flight. I went to the terminal I thought was the one, and the attendant told me “I called your name several times. Sorry I am going to have to put you on the next flight.”
And so, here I am now on the 7:50 pm flight to Seattle. A whole day gone wrong. But again, I don’t mind. I found myself productive despite the circumstances. So much so, that I am happy. Very, very happy!
Hell yeah! Let’s do another show! Let’s go save the world! Anything is possible if you want it.
What about you? What do you want? Really? Do you really want it? It is only yours if you believe it is yours. You believe it? You better believe it. Otherwise it is not yours.
Leave me some comments so I can talk about it in Episode 36. For now, have a great, great day, week, month, quarter, year, heck just make it the best you can.
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I think you can always tell people that travel too much. I try to behave in a similar way. If I miss a flight and can still make it to my destination and not get charged tons more money I can find something to do.
I frequently gate check bags. I have found it is the easiest to be one of the last people off of the plane. Otherwise all I do is just wait for my bag. I guess I mention this as I believe it creates less stress for me. You know that whole rush , rush , rush mentally. All those people that need to get off the plane to rush to there next gate to wait for there plane to board.
I have always liked the saying. Life is a journey not a destination. Even when traveling slow down look around experience life.