I bought a new desk for my home office for the first time in, well, ever, and felt strangely guilty after doing so. It was more than I wanted to spend, but that’s not why I felt guilty. I felt guilty because I tolerated something that wasn’t working for me. Tolerating something that no longer met my needs, something that no longer served its purpose, and ultimately something that no longer felt like it added value to my day.
Thus, a new desk. And one worth every penny.
But a desk isn’t the point of all this. Hell, a desk isn’t even the point of replacing my desk. Tolerating inadequacy or “good enough”. That’s the point. And I have no idea why I did it for so long. Good enough is never actually good enough. It’s just not a priority to address.
Until it is.
Now that I’m thinking about this, though, I realize that my desk really isn’t so different from my product. Maybe you’ve been white-knuckling commercial travel for decades, maybe you’ve missed connecting flights, maybe you’re just sick of delays, and maybe you’ve just…..accepted it. Not because you truly accepted it, just because it wasn’t a priority that required being a priority. It was, for lack of a better phrase, “good enough”.
The issue with merely tolerating something is the slow leak of hidden cost(s). Sometimes in the form of actual hidden cost, and others in the form of quality of life.
A jet card doesn’t fix all of life’s problems, but it fixes this. Fly when you need to fly. Go where you need to go. Go where you want to go. Go how you want to go.
I finally replaced my desk because the cost of inaction became greater (and more obvious) than the cost required to fix it. And I guess that’s just how it goes. So, the question isn’t “is this worth fixing?” The question is, “when does the math become impossible to ignore”.
If your travel is like my old desk, then it’s time we found you a new one.
Mark
