‘Go left! Go left!’ The voice from the GPS is repeating herself. ‘Shut up!’ I am talking out loud. ‘You don’t know this city. It has been illegal to go left or right in this crossing for like two years. No way I am going left, getting a big fine and probably having an accident on the top of it!’

There are so many voices these days telling you all kind of stuff. I need to be very careful who I listen too. It doesn’t mean I am not listening to a lot of people or voices. I do. I listen but I don’t listen. It is like the other day I was sitting in a conversation and the agenda was pretty clear, but we started out with some small talk. The guy in front of me talked about something at work. I think. I didn’t really listen. And I thought to myself: ‘Concentrate! Pretend you’re interested. I did and managed to concentrate.’

I make a lot of choices and decisions these days, both in business and in my personal life. Too many choices. I cannot pay attention to everything. How do I navigate in this urban jungle? I listen to a lot of different voices, well meaning people and experts and then I make my decision.

There are loads of people that have opinions but I tend to follow the people that can show me results. People that have achieved something have got something right. It doesn’t mean they are right about everything, but there is something they have understood.  

Proverbs in the Bible tells me;
“Plans fail for lack of counsel, but with many advisers they succeed.”

Do I follow the GPS’ direction? Yes, most of the time. But not when the terrain tells me something else.