You have been driving for a while. You have gotten to the point of taking the car for granted. It is an amazing piece of engineering, that is so common, you forget sometimes that it takes a lot to go forward.
You have fine tuned your engine to run at maximum output with the best possible efficiency.
Everything about your vehicle is in tip top condition, except you forgot the tires.
So there you sit, in a mud puddle, or grass, or slick asphalt, spinning your wheels. You have a machine that can race against any car out there, but you are stuck at the starting line.
When you slam your foot down on the pedal, you get no where. You need to take a deep breath. You need to take it slow. Give your incredible machine some time to build momentum.
Eventually, you will get up to speed and being a force to reckon with.
You are the captain of your ship. You have the maps, the compass, and a goal.
A man a plan a canal – Panama!
You are intelligent, so it can be assumed that the plan is a good solid plan. It can be assumed that you thought out the next several steps. It can be assumed the goal you are moving your boat towards is an important part of the big picture.
It is understandable why you would be upset that one of the crew members is rowing against the team. Trying to go off on his or her own direction.
Your boat will eventually get to where you are going, but to maximize efficiency, you need all the crew members rowing in the same direction.
When one member consistently questions the method of getting to a goal, and suggests several alternative routes, that crew member is becoming counterproductive.
It could be that this person is actually working against you. it could be that they are afraid of success. It could be as simple as they feel that every avenue should be explored before taking a step forward.
The trouble is, if you scan the entire ocean to find the safest path, you will still be sitting at the docks decades from now. Safe is fine, but safe is stagnant.
You should consider your ship to be a shark. If it is not moving forward, it will die. Anything that gets in the way of forward progress becomes a threat to the life of your ship and is therefore something that needs to be eliminated.
You cannot understand why no one else can get through a trip to the grocery store with as much poise and efficiency as you. It seems like everyone from the two gay guys trying to find the perfect wine for dinner to the little Asian woman who cannot reach the soy sauce, to the mother with her gaggle of loose and noisy children are all out to prevent you from getting in, getting your stuff and getting out.
What really pisses you off is when you have five items and want to use the self checkout lane. The problem is, they have three of the four lanes closed down, and the one lane that is open is clogged up with a fat lady with two shopping carts full of groceries, a book full of coupons, and she is paying with crinkled up dollars.
What is wrong with her?
This might seem like something for you to get upset about, but it illustrates a deeper lack of respect for mankind as a whole. Everyone is thinking about themselves and never taking into consideration that they are holding up everyone else. That’s not something you would do.
You were brought up right. You take other people into consideration when making choices like, “Should I clog up the Express Lane with my fifty frozen pizzas because technically it is only ONE item.”
You are far better than that.
There are times that you need to do big shopping and you are prepared for the adventure. You go, you fill up your cart, and you wait it out in the drudgery of the checkout line.
The day that everyone is as kind and considerate as you is the day mankind takes the next step in evolution.
