The past week demonstrated to me the danger of trying to implement the fastest solution can easily lead to poor outcomes.

Together with my wife, and our extended family we spent the week celebrating my wife’s 60^th birthday.  It was a great week culminating in a birthday dinner at the Sevenhill Hotel.

Upon returning home, I needed to our motorhome to an offsite storage facility.  In my rush to get this done as quickly as possible, I decided to take a shortcut down a narrow street with low hanging trees.

In the process of avoiding parked cars and allowing oncoming cars to pass, I managed to hit a  low hanging branch causing significant damage to the cabin of the motorhome and the rollout awning.

Thankfully, a local resident stepped forward and helped with securing the broken awning such that I could drive it back to storage.

Gratefully I offered a gift as a thank you which he refused to accept with the response:

“Good things happen to good people”

 In reflecting on the collision and the aftermath, I took away two learnings:

2. When I am racing to complete something, to stop and apply the proverb “slow and steady wins the race” to my actions; and
3. To always remember it feels good to help others, to make a difference in someone’s life, and to contribute to society without expectation of a return.