What's happening? How are you doing? You can't tell me because you're listening to this. But that doesn't mean I don't care. Welcome to another episode of the Mark Groves podcast. I am so excited. Always every week. This is actually one of my favorite things that I do. And that's a real blessing to be able to do that. I am currently in Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. And for those of you who don't know it, it is like the Texas of Canada. That's sort of how I think about it, you know, and this is where I grew up. And it's always beautiful to be home. I had an event here last night. And yesterday, I thought to myself, or, well, you know, previously when I booked my flight, I thought, you know what, I'll catch an early flight, then I can catch up with a couple friends that I haven't seen in a bit.

And so I get to the airport for my earlier flight.

I mean, 9 a.m. is not that early, but, you know, for those early birds out there, they're like,

try having kids.

Yeah, I got it.

And I get there, find out my flight's been delayed 35 or 45 minutes

i'm like okay i can hack that because you know when you book a flight and you don't choose the

later flights and you're trying to choose between them and then the later flights start leaving

before your delayed flight so my flight got delayed again and then the later flights start leaving before your delayed flight so my flight got

delayed again and so the 10 a.m. flight left as I was sitting there and then the 11 a.m. and us left it

around the same time and formerly I might have been like oh god damn planes you know this bullshit

airlines are always delayed which is not totally untrue.

And I don't have that perspective anymore. I now very much have the perspective that if that happens,

then I'm not meant to be in another place. I'm not meant to be in Calgary at that time. I'm meant to

be there later. And who knows if that saves me from a car accident or saves me from

something. Just like I remember once being delayed while I was driving home, there was big

traffic from a car accident. And the delay was not that long, you know, a couple of minutes. And

I was later walking and realized that just like maybe one minute ahead of me in the walk,

which I had to do later that day, so it was part of my plan to orchestrate my day that way.

And I saw a car run, a red light, which I would have been crossing. And I thought, you know,

just that delay could have led to me not being in front of that car. So this is the serendipitous nature

of which we have the opportunity to see life. It's a very powerful way to shift your mind

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