One Apple A Day #239
One year ago Today I was in Argentina with my best mate.
Two days before we had landed in Bariloche from where our road trip in Patagonia had started.
So, exactly one year ago we woke up in a tiny tent in a small town called El Bolson.
Every day of that trip had been fantastic, but I remember the third one because it was the day I understood the power of positivity and intuition.
From outside, that day was a sequence of failures and problems.
We didn’t sleep well because the tent was too tiny, there was no place to have a coffee in the camping, and all the café in the small town were closed.
We had to drive for 2 hours to our next stop to have a coffee. That stop was El Maitén where we were supposed to take the old steam train across the pampa, but it wasn’t working that day, not from that town. So, we had to drive to the next town and take a detour and so on.
But this is not the day we had lived. The absence of coffee in El Bolsón brought us back on the road very early, so we enjoyed driving on empty roads with a spectacular morning scenario around us. The small place where we had our breakfast was lovely and so local. I still remember how good the medialuna was and the graceful smile of the old lady that welcomed us.
Because the train wasn’t leaving from El Maitén that day we had to drive to Esquél and that meant spending 3 hours on a white road, with literally no one around. We had so much fun playing with our truck and doing some crazy off-road stunts.
See, too often we put our attention to what doesn’t work, and we got stuck in the problem. If we change our perspective and trust our intuition instead of wrapping our mind around the issue, we may transform the problem into an opportunity.