What’s better: A Plan - A Map
The video about the new google map inspired me to write about what maps or plans mean to me.
Seriously. Everybody needs a plan if they want to go anywhere. Unless of course you just want to wander around or go for a walk, but you still need to have a plan to find your way back home. Even following the stars, the moon or the sun is kind of a map.
Though I do love to just walk about when I’m on a Maldivian island - without much of a plan. I like to chose small round ones. I can simply just walk around it, look at the palm trees, count the coconuts, watch the waves and let my brain wander around, too. Eventually I end up at my beach chair.
Traveling without a plan
Without a plan or a map you end up anywhere but usually not where you wanted to go.
When I travelled through Canada, the only plan we had was “going west”. We didn’t have a plan and thus arrived in Vancouver almost a week too early.
Because we didn’t really have a plan: how long will it take us to go from town A to town B? Is there anything interesting on the way that’s worth a trip to the north or south? We actually did miss some interesting places. Often we thought we didn’t have the time to drive 3 hours into another direction than west. I learned even if you have 3 weeks, it’s a good idea to have at least a simple plan, and do some research.
A plan is not a map
Not only when traveling you need to have a plan or a map.
A map can show you where you are right now, where you want to go and what’s around you that might need your attention eventually.
The plan shows you where you want to go. Gives you a time frame. And helps to stay focused.
Getting lost
Should you still get distracted and you find you chased a shiny nickel, your map will show you where you are now and how to find your way back home and your plan will put you on track again.
I think sometimes it’s ok to chase a shiny nickel, as long as you don’t forget to bring your map along. Unfortunately I see too many people who must have forgotten to bring their map or never gotten one and keep chasing one shiny object after the other.
Guess what.
They get lost. Will have a hard time to find back home. Maybe never will. They will wander the earth for ever. Do you know anybody like that?
Don’t you want to help them?
Once in a while (more often when I was younger LOL) I meet someone who is lost. And I want to help them to find their way back home. And it’s so frustrating because they won’t even take a look at the map. Of course, now I know it’s my map, it’s not much use to them.
So, now I just strole along with them (keeping my map firmly to myself and my plan in mind) and see if I can help them choose a direction when they come to a crossing. Sometimes they chose to change their direction and strole with me, follow my map until they can draw up their own.
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Stay on track with a map or a plan, or both.
