#Waze March 19

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Today contribution to the 30-Day Letter Writing Coach4aday Challenge is on WAZE.

The challenge involves composing a letter to yourself when you were an earlier age. The goal is to focus on a value, habit, or choice that needs to be adopted or made.

Yesterday a road trip from Lumberton to Apex NC made me ponder the differences between activity and accomplishment. This philosophical moment came about by thinking about instruments and gauges found on my vehicle dashboard. Some of the first cars I drove had a few simple ones like the tachometer, odometer, and speedometer. that were designed to measure performance. Yet for yesterday’s trip it was the phone app WAZE that played a big role in defining success.

Day 19- Letter about activity and accomplishment

March 19, 2023

Dear Dan:

Yesterday you drove from Lumberton NC to Apex NC for a surprise 60th birthday party for a friend. That event was being held at a restaurant you had never been to before. So, you utilized the navigation software on your phone called WAZE.

For a portion of that trip, you paid attention to the instrument panel on your vehicle. It made you think of some of the first cars you drove that only had three consistent gauges on the dashboard.

To the far left you had the tachometer that tracked RPM’s, in the center prominently displayed was the speedometer, and under that was the odometer.

Not sure what caused you to get so analytical, but you began to group the gauges and Waze app into two categories. You assigned the speedometer and tachometer as instruments to measure activity and the remaining two as devices that tracked achievement.

Thinking about the differences between being busy (lots of activity) and achievement (accomplishing something significant) reinforced a life lesson. Lot’s of data can tell us how hard we are working or how fast we are going but is that the primary purpose of life? Is staying busy and working hard success?

That odometer is telling you how you have traveled. With WAZE it will guide you on the best route to get to your destination.

What that phone app is doing is providing you with real-time directions that are adjusted on-the-fly to account for various types of potential obstacles. In real life sometimes wisdom and advice will lead to achievement faster than activity.

Grown Up Dan