Never Settle - The Answer Could Be Where You Started!

There is always lessons on the road to not settling.

We landed at LAX this evening and the United terminal is pretty dismal - so I went for a wander seeing I'm going to be sitting for 14 hours straight. I wanted to find an experience like I had at the Alaska terminal some months earlier. They have big long benches where you can sit and work - each bench with multi power points, big tall stools to sit on - they've totally thought the whole process out.

As I wandered the concourse of the three possible terminals none came close, nothing that even bore a passing resemble to a work station.

I passed many people sitting on the floor plugged into the power points the cleaners used. Nearly ready to give up and go the balancing the laptop on the knee trick, the only choice was to go back to the terminal I arrived at.

With nothing better to do I wandered through and discovered a magical sign. "Alaska boardroom this way" As I went through, sure enough, there I was in the Alaska terminal - its quiet, there are heaps of spaces at the desks and all it took was to not settle for the very first terminal. I've set my alarm so I don't forget to get on my flight and I got to go to Ruby's again.

New motto - never settle for what the other folks settle for. Interesting it was just around the corner and I was already there when I landed!

The Tale of the Office Power Play

All well for two weeks, now an imposter not only lurks but perks the top spot in the office.

I thought the power plays in the corporate world were horrendous but nothing compared to the power plays of two part time pets in San Francisco.

When I first arrived little Sophie the lovingist little dog wanted to come and sit on my knee in the office. There just wasn't room, so I bought her groovy little growlie day bed in and put it beside me.

She was happy with that arrangement so long as she got the right amount of pats and attention throughout the day.

Marcel the very sweet natured three legged cat with a cone on his head was happy down in the lounge for ages.

Then one day he decided he'd get in on the office action when he figured out he could lay in the sun and get some of the extra attention too.

All went well with that arrangement for days on end.

In fact both would share the floor when the sun was in the exact right spot.

Then sweet and timid little Marcel who has been very quiet for the whole time just yesterday he stepped up and decided the growlie bed was for him, leaving Sophie out on the carpet.

Now there is a race for top spot.

Even though he's only got three legs - Marcel seems to be winning

But Sophie has fought back with a valiant strategy to achieve the sympathy vote .... she took up residence in my backpack.

The coaching lesson in all this:  with the right fire in your belly, anyone, despite their circumstances can claim their rightful place in the world, if they have the courage to make the move.

AND there is always a bigger bed ......... luckily big bro Luke has been at behavioural bootcamp while I've been here and his vacant bed has now been made available for Sophie allowing my KnoMo backpack to remain in its original shape. 

But we all know what's going to happen next ............ yep you guessed right!

The Power Play Continues.................



Love my part time pets!