I was at Birmingham International rail station recently, stuck, with no trains going North due to a fatality.  There were huge queues for buses and taxis.  I just wanted to get home. Then I remembered,  the rail station is right next to the airport, connected by a 1 minute monorail ride.  I hopped across to the airport and jumped straight into a taxi to New St station. No queues, no crowds, no waiting.

All it needed was the creative thinking to make the connection.  But how many of us feel that we are waiting in line in our lives and work for something to happen, feeling that you have to let the others go first, or hang on until the appointed time, until you come to the top of the pile.  Yet maybe, just a minute away, there is a place where you don’t have to queue, where people want to help you, where there is opportunity. It could be right in the next office or just around the corner and you haven’t seen it cos you’ve been focusing on keeping your place in the queue, just like everyone else.

I say, life is too short for queuing.  Think creatively about where there are no queues. How could you get there?  What will you do to queue-jump today?  How will it feel when your queuing days are behind you and you have all that stuff that you have been waiting for?