Dream Walking

Its so hard to describe how I feel without sounding like I’m depressed. There is so much on my plate right now…its a battle to maintain proper focus. And in the midst of it all, I feel like I am not making any strides in the things that are of most importance to me. I guess this is what transition is all about. I should have learn by now to just trust in God’s perfect timing and His purpose in the here and now…but let me be honest…its easier said than done. One distraction after another seems to take my mind’s attention and energy away from goals.

The fact that no one’s journey is the same is both the beauty of life and the root of so much frustration. While seeing my friends make progress and hear the story of their wishes granted is awesome…it doesn’t give me the sense of direction I need. I know everyone’s path is different. But a general map or the lifting of the Fog of War surrounding my life would be nice.

I trust God. I look at how He has lead my life in the past year and truly believe that He will make everything beautiful in His time. Its the issue of waiting….The being blind to parts of the work in progress.

I joked with friends that I was getting a Masters degree in patience. I think now I’ve started on the PHD.

One day you’ll call me Dr. Patient, but tonight the name is Dr. Eager.

I hate shopping for clothes with a passion.  The process  has become ridiculously tedious.  In the age of inovatioin, creativity, and technology there must be some way to ease the experience. 

I share with you my latest experience.  I tagged along with Justin and went to the Galleria last week and found that Express had some great deals on slacks and shirts.   The tasks of buying these items would appear easy…but NOOOO….It took 15 minutes or so to find three MX shirts that were under the sign marked “Sale”. However, at checkout the cashier told me that only 1 shirt fit the sales criteria.  He told me to look for the MX classic shirts.  I went back to the table with the shirts and shelves and found that all the MX shirts were mixed.  Nice!  I found 3 shirts that meet the sale and returned back to the line at checkout.  Waiting…waiting….waiting…finally I get all checked out.  I should of realized that when the alarm beeped when we walked out that something was amiss.  I returned home and checked my shirts to find that not one…not two….but three shirts still had the security tag on them! What the heck?  One is a mistake…but two or more is just gross negligence. 

I have high standards for service.  A simple process of buying a shirt took 30 minutes more than it should have to purchase…and I had to return to the store for the security tags to be removed. I realize people make mistakes, but bad customer service is an out of control disease in the retail sales industry at large.  And is a wonder to me that the whole checkout process has not improved dramatically with all the technological advances around us. 

There are some stores that do get it right.  Shopped at an Apple Store lately?  Not only are you offered help when you walk through the door, but their sales people walk around with hand held registers!  Pay with a credit card and your sales person can you ring you up and e-mail you the receipt within 5 minutes of you deciding that you want to buy.  That my friend is innovation, strong customer service, and technology at work.  Just go to an apple store and observe.  Its an efficient machine that benefits both the consumer and store.Rune Goldberg is runnin’ amuck!  However, my new shirts are quite the fashion statement and I got one heck of a deal :). 

That is all for now.  Inhale. Exhale. 

- Jimmy