Travel Light or You May Never Make It
A characteristic of many of the great business leaders and entrepreneurs is that they learned to travel light. Sam Walton was no different. When you consider what we talked about in the last Walton post, it's something that those not traveling light can be destroyed and give up on their purpose.
Walton talked about the numerous setbacks and failures he had in building up Wal-Mart (WMT) and this specific situation saying this: "I've never been one to dwell on reverses, and I didn't do so then.... I know I read my leases a lot more carefully after that, and maybe I became a little more wary of just how tough the world can be .... But I didn't dwell on my disappointment."'
That's what we're talking about when saying we need to travel light. Sure we learn from our mistakes, like he said he did - and he was aware of how tough the 
world could get - but he didn't let it take his eyes off of where he intended to go.
The one thing about not letting something go is that it makes you dwell in the past. When you dwell in the past, you're not looking toward the future. No business could survive without looking ahead ... neither a manager within it.
We need to learn to travel light. Take care of situations as they arise. Someone treat you wrong? Learn from it, but then let it go. Don't let it become personal to the point of distraction.
One thing about the power of disappointments is that they can keep you in a world that no longer exists, while at the same time keeping you from the world that you want to create through your business. In other words, it puts you in limbo between the two.
The answer is to travel light and let those emotions and reactions from circumstances drop by the roadside while you continue on your journey. Anything else with turn you into an emotional wreck along with devastating the effectiveness that your management role requires.
Travel light and enjoy the journey!
Other Walton Sources:
The Most Underrated CEO Ever The legendary Sam Walton
Sam Walton: The Power of Persistence
Sam Walton Business Quotes for Ya
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