Are you focused or myopic?

 You might have seen on twitter that I had the opportunity to coach my sons football team in the Rogers Centre last week. A great experience for sure. The minutes leading up to it however, had my stomach in knots.

Traffic was awful headed into Toronto and I got a text from the head coach that we were on the field in 2 minutes … but I hadn’t even parked the car yet. When I got the text and looked in the back seat at my excited son in full football gear, my heart went into my feet.

When we pulled into the Rogers Centre, there was a parking space by an elevator – sweet. We took off so quickly I didn’t even notice it was a tow away zone.

I convinced the Rogers Centre staff to take us to field level – even though I didn’t even have my tickets yet – and all was well.

When we returned to the car and I noticed where I had parked, I was thankful we had a car to return to. It’s amazing how when we are desperately going after something we want, we see what we want to see. I wanted to see a free parking space, and so that’s what I saw. Where else in life do I completely miss “signs” because what I consider to be focused is in fact, myopic?