I've got a question I'd like to ask you and here's the question. Have you ever made a mistake, but instead of getting in trouble or causing yourself to have a difficult time because of that mistake, things actually turned out for the best?

Life's unpredictable and it frequently doesn't go according to plan.

Now usually that causes us to feel stressed out or causes problems, but sometimes, just sometimes, when life doesn't go according to plan, it actually makes our lives a lot easier.

I'm happy to say that this exact situation happened to me last week.

I made a mistake, I messed up, but it ended up working out well for me. It was a good mistake to make looking back at things in retrospect.

I'll tell you the whole story here in just a moment, but before I do, I'm going to quickly introduce myself.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm Andrew, and this is a bonus episode of the

Kulips English podcast.

Here at Kulips, we make audio lessons for intermediate to

advanced English learners that are designed to help you improve your communication skills

and get you closer to reaching your fluency goals.

There's an absolutely free interactive transcript for this episode

that you can get by clicking the link in the description or by visiting our website

QLips.com.

So back to the story of my mistake turning out for the best.

Well if you listen to last week's bonus episode you'll know that I was supposed to run in a half marathon last week.

Even though I didn't really want to do it and I didn't feel like I was in very good shape,

I wasn't about to let the $35 registration fee go to waste and decided to definitely participate in the race even if I had to take it slow and easy.

So the race was on Sunday morning. I woke up early around

6.30 in the morning and got ready. I put on the clothes I had laid out the night before, I took a shower, and I had a couple of the night before, I took a shower, and I had a couple of cups of coffee.

I did some light stretching and some foam rolling, and then it was time to leave. By this time it was probably around 7.30 in the morning.

I was under the impression that the race started at 8.40 a.m.

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