Like A Boss

We recently took the Brightline train to south Florida to visit my younger daughter. Since we didn’t have a vehicle; whenever we went anywhere, Tess drove. If you have ever driven in Miami/Fort Lauderdale; it is quite literally insane. It’s easy to understand why a person could end up with middle finger fatigue.

When you take tens of thousands of people and put them each in a 2000 pound tin can and factor in high speed, aggression, lack of common sense, me-first attitudes and texting while driving; it gets ugly. Not to mention that a good percentage of them are not from the area and don’t know where they are going. When you wet the roads with rain it takes it to a whole new level.

I have to say though that I was thoroughly impressed with my daughter’s unflinching ability to navigate through it all. She let stupid people do stupid things and acquiesced when that was the smartest reaction. She maintained her cool and I would bet that if I would have measured her cortisol level after one particularly harrowing trip that it would not have risen.

On the train ride home I started thinking about when I was teaching Tess to drive. She was excited yet anxious. There are a lot of things to learn; a lot of things to be aware of and the stakes are high if you don’t do them right.

Driving around in a field where there is nothing to run into, back into, side swipe or turn in front of is one thing. Driving in traffic or on the freeway is quite another. Once her confidence level was there then it was time to start adding levels of complexity.

She was extremely anxious about adding the new skills necessary to navigate in traffic. But she did it and as time went on and as she learned the new skills and applied them to the process then it opened up a whole new world to her; one of independence and self reliance.

I’ll never forget the first time dropping her off at school when she was the one to drive. We pulled up in front where her friends were standing and they watched her get out of the driver’s side. There were cheers and high fives but the look on her face was worth a million bucks. It was a look of “I got this”.

I watched her go from being in a place of being overwhelmed and anxious to handling Miami traffic like a boss.

As I was thinking about a blog post for this week; I thought about this because I feel like I’m having a very similar experience with the Master Key Experience (MKE). At first it is somewhat inundating with a lot to learn and apply.

There are a lot of moving parts and a lot of ‘what to do when’ and feeling like I’m never going to get it or be where I need to be with it. As I plod along though, it is with ever growing confidence that manifesting my DMP like a boss.