Not always easy to see problems as ‘opportunities’
Sometimes I feel like someone wearing Christian Louboutin shoes who’s living in a Reebok casual shoe world: limping along gamely but dropping toward the back of the race.
I recently had my eyes examined and ordered new glasses. This was my first eye exam and pair of new glasses in about five or six years. I’m at an age when my eyes really aren’t going to get much worse (and certainly not any better), so I simply haven’t gotten regular eye exams lately.
But my trusty frames were finally starting to wear out, threatening to disintegrate simply from age.
First, I made an appointment for the eye exam, at a place my son highly recommended. But I got an appointment with the OTHER optometrist, not the one he recommended. I was told the glasses would take about five to seven business days to be ready, but they took almost two weeks.
I put the new glasses on yesterday for the first time, only to find my vision through them was noticeably poorer than with the five to six year old pair.
I know it’s important to see “problems” or trouble as challenges and opportunities. But when you’ve just laid out nearly $300 and have trouble seeing ANYTHING, it’s really hard to appreciate the opportunity. I don’t know about you, but 300 bucks is a serious chunk of money on my budget.
I found it helpful to take some deep breathes, remain calm, and explain step-by-step to the optometrist’s technician just what was wrong with the new glasses.
Things are working toward a happy ending, however: The company’s guarantee is good and they are honoring it. I had a re-exam, and this time they arranged an exam with the optometrist my son had recommended. She did an incredible, much more thorough job with the exam.
And while I was getting a “redo,” the company helped me find frames that fit me better than the ones I had picked out — frames which proved to be $40 cheaper!
Guess the problem really was an opportunity.
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