How often has this happened to you...some stressful situation pops up, you focus on it to deal with it, and you miss something important? It happens to us all, I imagine. And it happened to Jess and I last week. In a day of preparing to run an event on the weekend, and having to drive down to Middletown to pick up the now-repaired car, and trying to cram more into the day...we forgot our class. No, really. The mandatory class we have to take to complete the race, and we up and forget. Fortunately, we hauled ourselves to Huber Heights to take it there, resulting only in incovnenience to ourselves, and rescheduling of another meeting...inconveniencing others.
But what does this remind me of? Has this happened to me before? Have I missed the due date on a bill and gotten a late charge, forgotten to make a deposit, or something like that? Oh, yes, yes I have. And so to the list of lessons learned this race, I'm adding this one: the devil is in the details. Just because something pops up to claim our attention, doesn't mean we can drop everything else (outside of an emergency).
How many late charges have we paid from simple forgetfulness? Wouldn't those dollars be better used in savings, or paying balances, or really anything else at all? I think the answer is pretty obvious.
Dave
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