The final session was scheduled in the seminar room at the Daniele Hotel. There were still several vital pieces of the puzzle to be put in place.
“Are your buckets getting full?” I asked. “I feel like you’ve got a bucket and I’ve got a thimble,” Karen said. “And my thimble overflowed a long time ago. I’m lost.”
“I know how you feel. Just the other day David and I got lost trying to find Nora’s house. Took the wrong freeway. We didn’t panic. Just pulled out a map, figured out where we were, selected a new route and finally arrived at our destination. That’s what a road map does—gives you perspective, the big picture. And if you don’t have that, it’s easy to get lost.
“Let me illustrate.
“Just before speaking at a conference in Acapulco a few years ago, I had a brainstorm. I ran downstairs to the hotel variety store and bought three copies of an inexpensive local puzzle—a picture of the Hyatt Hotel located on Acapulco Bay. I disassembled one of the puzzles and later dumped the pieces in front of a couple in the front row at the conference, challenging them to see how fast they could put it back together .I gave the same challenge to another couple, except this time as I dumped the mixed-up pieces in front of them I also gave them a completed puzzle to use for reference. Can you guess which couple finished first?”
“The one that had a clear picture of where they were going,” Mary responded.
Taken From:The ROAD TO WEALTH