The Daily Wake Up Micro Podcast
Business:Entrepreneurship
We were supposed to be in Scottsdale this week for Spring Break. Because of the Coronavirus, our reservations were canceled. Since we had already planned for a road trip to Scottsdale, we decided to all get in the van and take a drive to a gas station we were familiar with about an hour and a half each way.
As we drove to our destination, we passed a very large gas station without thinking about stopping. About 15 miles later we saw a sign to the next town 74 miles; my wife, Lindsay, looked at the miles remaining in our gas tank and it read 72 miles. “We should have stopped for gas,” she said.
My response was, “we’ll be fine. The gas station we’re going to is closer than the town.”
Mile after mile, we kept driving, and rumor has it, you could hear me say several times, “it’s just around the bend.” It wasn’t.
When we had 25 miles to empty, I asked Lindsay if she was starting to get worried. She said, “starting to get worried? I was worried twenty miles ago.”
The kids started asking if we were going to run out of gas in the middle of nowhere. I told them faith and fear share one common trait; they both occur in the future, so I asked them, do they choose faith or fear? Faith, that we would arrive to the gas station before we ran out of gas or fear that we would run out of gas before getting there.
“Faith!” Taya said confidently.
We kept driving, “10 miles to empty!” I shouted to the family. A few miles later, “We are 2 miles to empty.” I’m not going to lie, I started to get nervous, where was the gas station I remember stopping at when we drove here from Seattle, Washington.
“We’re not going to make it!” Taya said franticly, “what are we going to do? Are we going to have to walk? It’s dangerous.”
“Do you choose faith or fear Taya?” I asked her.
“I choose not walking on the side of the road.”
I looked at Lindsay, ready to ask her the question, and knew enough by the look on her face to not ask her if she choose faith or fear.
“I choose faith!” I said as I puffed out my chest.
The miles left indicator on our dash went to zero...
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