It’s amazing how simple things turn out to be great life lessons. Nothing in this world works without planning, time management and decision making. I’ve always considered myself to be very bad at these. But I never failed to accept the lessons life teaches me.
My friend and I were once planning a small weekend getaway and we had to reserve a hotel for our stay. I was looking up hotels the whole week with many things in mind like distance, cost, reviews, breakfast, access to public transportation and free cancellation. I reserved a room for two nights just the day before our trip. Lot of planning was lacking for this trip. On that same day a little after my booking event, I received a call about a conference call that was set up later that day. The call was important and I had a hunch that there was going to be something important the next day that was going to hinder my trip. I decided to ignore this intuition. The conference call was set up for 3.30 pm and I had time until 3.pm to cancel my hotel reservation for a full refund.
You guessed it right!, my hunch about that something important being scheduled for the next day actually turned out to be true and there was no way I was going to compromise it for the trip.
Travel booking sites make you believe that very limited rooms are available and that we are running out of time to find a room, but that’s not the case. There were plenty of rooms available and worst case scenario, there is always Airbnb. If I had just believed my intuition and canceled my booking, only to book it again after my meeting, I would have got a full refund and not spend money on a service I dint use.
We should stop and think whenever necessary. Always look at what is happening around, absorb everything, plan well ahead and make good decisions. I just hope I don’t mess another hotel reservations in future.
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