It's rowing season again which means I get my one hour of solitude and exercise in the morning. About this same time last year, I wrote my long-winded "life is like a box of chocolates" analogy about how rowing and entrepreneurship have some great similarities.
Well today I get to expand on that. While I was concentrating on my technique and enjoying the feeling of being out in my favourite boat "the cooper", I ran into a dock. And not just any ol' dock. The great big Redboine dock that sticks way out of the water and has lots of really big boats docked at it. This is not a structure that sneaks up on you. It is labeled, has big orange cones, and VERY LARGE BOATS. How utterly out to lunch do you have to be to run INTO the dock? Well, I managed it. Fortunately, neither the boat nor I was injured in this altercation. I did, however, get a dunk in our chilly, muddy Red River before I had my morning coffee which was not the way I imagined my day unfolding. I managed to climb out of the slimy cold water, onto their slimy, dry dock and get back into my beloved Cooper to enjoy the remainder of my row in soppy wet, slightly fishy smelling clothes.
The lesson: When you are concentrating on the little things, you still need to WATCH WHERE YOU ARE GOING.
Lesson #2: You can still run into really big things, even when you know they exist.
The day can only get better :)
Mavis. This post is so funny. I hope you have recovered from your dock smash-up! I guess that's Lesson #3 - when you're moving backwards you can probably run into ANYTHING.
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