One of America's greatest accomplishments has been the Apollo Space project. Designed as the answer to President Kennedy's challenge to our country's ingenuity, to walk a man on the moon by the end of the decade, it has been one giant leap for mankind. Would it surprise you to learn that during it's journey of 250,000 miles, this miracle of modern engineering is on course less than 3 % of the time? Even with all our technology for every hour it's in flight, it's only on course for two minutes! Yet despite it wandering off course 97% of the time, it still manages to get where it's going, and back, accomplishing it's goal.
I don't know about you but this analogy gives me hope. Lord knows we all have our wandering in the desert moments, off track and seeking to find our path in life. Yawing through our daily activities on autopilot without purpose, or a meaningful goal. But we are all here for a reason, we are part of an intelligent design. So to avoid our purpose from being fertilizer for a greater cause, perhaps we should seek our mission here on Earth.
That's not to say it going to be obvious, there will be missteps and course correction involved. The key is self awareness. Your guidance system can put you back on the right course faster than any outside influence. But in order to have course correction, your capsule has to lift off the launching pad. You can't steer a parked spaceship. I'll leave you with this bit of wisdom I've found helpful in my journey.......
Would you like me to give you the formula to success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure! Your thinking the enemy of success is failure. But it isn't at all....You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes! Make all you can! Because, remember where you find success, is just on the other side of failure.-Thomas J. Watson Sr.
God Bless!
Capt. Bill
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