Navigation for life experiences?
Author
Thomas Wiest
CEO, Aspirience Home Care
You know, there are so many options available now on new cars and trucks, it’s just amazing! One of the most popular and more common features found today in the automotive world is a navigation system.
Most are touch screen operated and utilize a Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) system and internal electronic maps to gauge the vehicle’s location and plot a course to a selected destination. The system responds to spoken commands, including millions of preprogrammed points of interest, and allows the driver to choose from several different routes in the event of road construction or delayed traffic driving. It’s virtually bullet proof to get you from point A to B.
I had navigation on a car I rented from Hertz (www.hertz.com) a few years ago. It was actually quite useful and very easy to use. I told myself on my next vehicle I should get that option.
Now, I don’t drive anything fancy, just an older Ford pickup – without navigation. Ford has never offered navigation on their pickups. But, you know what, I like my truck. It does everything I want it to do or ever asked it to do and then some.
However, new for 2007, Ford is offering for the first time in their history, yep you guessed it – navigation on their trucks.
I’m excited; I can get the best of both worlds now. My utilitarian pickup and a state of the art navigation system to help guide me around the Twin Cities or where ever I may travel.
Put that scenario into this analogy:
Wouldn’t it be great to have a navigation system for our life experiences? Someone with a map of where to turn at the right time to keep us on course. To lead us in times of taking care of another family member when we may not know how to or have the physical and emotional energy or support to do so.
Think about a time when you were lost. You were looking for direction. Not sure what to do or where to turn because you were in such unchartered territory. A place you had never been before.
Taking care of loved one in home can be just like that. It can happen to anyone at anytime.
It’s important to know, there are people that can help you navigate the home care path.