Last week was a real-time case research in journey logistics, climate extremes, infrastructure — and mindset. The itinerary alone lined some floor: London → Miami → West Palm → Fort Lauderdale →…

Last week was a real-time case research in journey logistics, climate extremes, infrastructure — and mindset.
The itinerary alone lined some floor:
London → Miami → West Palm → Fort Lauderdale → Chicago → Gary, Indiana → New York → London → Cardiff.

It started in sunny Miami with a half marathon adopted by a sequence of investor conferences. The race was mentally robust — relentless warmth that turned a bodily problem right into a psychological one. Great vitality, robust conversations… and severe humidity.

Next cease was Chicago for conferences and a go to to Gary, Indiana. Chicago was genuinely colder than Antarctica and delivered a full snow blizzard for good measure — together with driving straight by way of it. An entire distinction to Miami in each doable manner.

The week wrapped up in New York with a day spent seeing my brother Iain McNamara — the perfect type of reset.
Along the way in which, I handed by way of Heathrow, Miami, Chicago O’Hare, LaGuardia, and Newark, experiencing an enormous quantity of infrastructure and delays in a really brief time: automotive rent, trains, trams, airplanes, buses, taxis, shuttles.
When infrastructure works, you barely discover it. When it doesn’t, you discover the whole lot:
– Flight to Miami delayed 24 hours, together with leaving the airport and beginning once more
– Chicago → New York delayed six hours on account of climate
– New Jersey Transit practice breakdown
– Terminal T5 shuttle not operating
– Heathrow on a Sunday morning: no Elizabeth Line and no Heathrow Express

Weeks like this power a easy selection: get irritated, or get on with it.
Some issues are in your management. Many aren’t. Travel makes that apparent — however the identical lesson applies to life and enterprise.

Focus on what you may affect, adapt to what you may’t, and preserve shifting ahead.
Grateful for the conferences, the miles run, the household time, and the reminder that resilience isn’t dramatic — it’s sensible.