“Why are they looking at us like that?” I said, mildly annoyed at the couple in the car next to us.
“I think something’s wrong,” Arjen said, and steered our van onto the emergency lane.
One of the trailer’s tires had blown. Fifteen minutes into a five-hour drive to Belgium for his work. Not a great start.
We parked on a nearby business park. Arjen got out to check the damage. I spotted a commercial vehicle service down the road.
“I’m going to see if they have a wheel.”
“There’s no point,” Arjen said. “It’s after five, they’re closed. And even if they’re not — this isn’t a standard size. They won’t have it.”
“I’m going anyway.”
The door to the building was unlocked. I shouted hello into nothing and went back to Arjen, who by then had a plan: drive back for the spare, come back, swap it on.
“Okay,” I said. And since he was still busy checking for further damage, I crossed the street again.
“There’s really no point,” Arjen said, again. “They won’t have the wheel we need.”
“I’m going anyway. You never know.”
This time, a man walked out. I told him about the tire and asked if he had a wheel for us.
He walked with me to the trailer, looked, said he was pretty sure he didn’t, but would check anyway. “You never know.”
Five minutes later he came back … with the exact wheel we needed.
Turned out he’d bought a set of these off-size wheels ages ago and forgotten about them. No reason to remember something he’d never needed. Until now.
He sold us the pair, and, after putting on the first wheel, asked if he should put the second one on, too.
“No, we’ll just take it with us,” Arjen said.
“Yes. Put it on,” I said.
He looked at both of us, then dropped to his knees to check under the trailer. He came back up and said “I’d better put it on. There’s already a bulge in this one. Won’t be long before it blows too.”
Fifteen minutes later we were on our way again, with two new tires. “It was meant to be this way,” the man had said, as surprised as Arjen that he’d had the right size wheel this whole time.
“Good thing you went anyway,” Arjen said. “Even though it seemed pointless.”
This wasn’t stubbornness on my part. It wasn’t hope, either. It was just a small pull, underneath some perfectly good reasons not to go. And I’ve learned to trust that small pull more than any logical reason.
It’s the same shift I walk my private clients through: instead of giving attention to the content of your thoughts, you notice the quiet underneath them.
So you can clearly see the small pulls and ideas that don’t seem to make sense. You just know what to do without overthinking or stress.
If there’s one thing in your business or life you’ve already given plenty of thought and thrown multiple different strategies at, and still, it won’t budge … I can help.
Why wait?
Now is the perfect time to walk across the street …
Love,
P.S. Even though I know this is how life works, it still amazes me in the best way to see things work out like this. You seriously don’t need to effort and force yourself through life. It can be easier. That’s what you’ll experience in my coaching, too.
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