Always look for the other door

So today we’re going to talk about looking for other options. Don’t always settle for what’s right in front of you. So I get here to the gate. I’m at Las Vegas airport, headed out this morning. And I show up and they said, “Nah, PreCheck’s closed. You got to wait in line.”

And I look over at the line and I said, “Nah, that’s like a 45 minute wait. Not going to do it.” I was like, “Where’s the next PreCheck?”

They said, “The next gate over.”

It’s a three minute walk. I walk over to the next PreCheck, get through, first person in line. I walk back to my gate, an extra 6 minutes of my life saved me 40 minutes, 45 minutes in line. So always be willing to look for that other door.

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