Get in the car and drive. Go wherever you want. Get your GPS, plug in an address and go.
This is easy when you only have yourself to consider in your decision-making, or when it’s just you and your spouse.
But when you add more people to the car, it requires — well, MORE planning, more consensus building, more work.
You can’t just hop in the car and drive anymore.
Where do you want to go?
I dunno.
Well, what do you want to do?
It doesn’t matter, whatever you want.
Do you know what you want to eat?
Not really.
The sticky part comes when the other people in the car don’t know where they want to go.
Which happens a lot. Most people prefer someone else to drive because they either don’t want to be responsible for making the decisions, or they are afraid of what would happen if they made the wrong decision.
Most people wouldn’t just drive the car to wherever they want without the input of their passengers. Heck, even a bus driver doesn’t do that. They go where the passengers want to go.
The key, if you’re driving the car, is to make sure you have everyone in the car that wants the same things you want.
This doesn’t mean MAKING them want what you want.
It means looking them in the eye, exploring with them what they want for themselves, and finding out of this is a trip they want to take with you.
And that’s when all of the best discoveries can begin. Without this awareness, we might find ourselves in the car, driving in circles.
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