They say to stop and smell the roses. Last week I was making some plans with somebody about meeting up early in the morning and I said the name of this town near me called Collegeville, but I had my directions pointed to a different town named Manayunk where I was going. But I kept telling this person that I was going to meet them Collegeville.
I, somehow, had conflated two towns that are nothing similar and even have names wildly different from each other.
The meeting got all fouled up and we had to reschedule because I was in a completely different place than the guy I was meeting with.
I was so focused on the meeting, that I didn’t take a moment to even think about the towns I was speaking about. If I had pulled up a map, or thought about the meeting place, I would have quickly corrected the issue, but I didn’t enjoy the process. I was locked in on the results.
When you don’t stroll through the process and enjoy it, you don’t smell the roses. And when you don’t smell the roses, you’re likely to make an error and probably not even know how it happened.
So, walk more deliberately and smell the roses.