Being prepared to do something means being successful. Failure to prepare means you are not successful! I know you can't always be prepared for everything, every little details that happens in your life. But for the ones that you can be prepared for, doing that prep work is always a good thing!
I had a doctor's appointment this morning at 10am. I got up, got my daughter to summer camp, (which she loves by the way!) and went back home because I didn't remember where I had written the information. I've never been to see him before, he's a orthopedic surgeon. I had my X-rays ready to be viewed and I was happy to get this out of the way at last.
Ten minutes later I'm still frantically searching for the address, nothing, no telephone numbers either! How could I have been so careless? Why didn't I do this the night before? Why hadn't I put his info into my cell phone? All those questions buzzzzzzed around my brain!
I had an idea of where the office was located, and so I grabbed my stuff and headed out the door. The first location I went to, no luck! It was 10:10am...usually if I had gotten there no later than 15 mins, you are seen. I was going to apologize profusely, explain my ineptness and charm my way into being seen! No luck, it wasn't there! I was sent somewhere else, where that office thought this doctor's office might be.
Thirty minutes later, having been to several buildings, driving up and down the road, going up and down elevators, no luck! Good grief! I might as well call it a day I said to myself.
I decided to try another location where there was a medical building with several doctors enwuite. This was 45 minutes later; you can give me A for effort and determination!
No luck! There were two offices on that floor, the thing is, the name of the doctor that I remembered, didn't match any on the directory. I went in anyway, explained myself to the receptionist, asked if maybe I had the name wrong, could she see if I was scheduled to be seen there and I would just make another appointment. But nope, not scheduled for that office. She gave me directions to the other office on that floor. I walked in, it is dark in the foyer, apparently an air condition broke down and lights being out in the foyer area. A guy was there on his cell phone, with a big fan going and what seemed to be a hose pumping or cleaning up the area. I guess they had some problems in that suite. The guy told me no one was there and they would be back at 1pm.
So at that point I left, feeling quite miserable and not having a good morning! I made a decision to not let it ruin my day and get the information again from the office on line and reschedule. I'll have to apologize and I'll probably have to pay a fee for not showing up....aggrrhhhh! [Deep breaths!]
At any rate folks, the lesson there is, you fail to prepare, prepare for failure! That was my morning, how was yours? I don't plan to let this ruin my day though!