The Numbers Tell The Story More Accurately…

Those of you who know me and are friends of Jayne and me, or are friends with us on the socials, know that in March 2023 Jayne and I moved back into our current home following the completion of some significant renovations.

We renovated our home because the house that occupied the site on the property did not do justice to the view and the aspect that the homesite commanded.

We are very lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world.

But we worked very hard to earn the result that we now have that we now call our home.

One of the things that we did in our renovation was to make the bathrooms as grand an experience as we could.

With that experience reflecting on the luxury that we enjoy when we arrive at the home, when we walk around our property, and when we simply just look out our windows.

For me, getting the shower right was a very important project.

For years, I’d always enjoyed hotel rooms where the shower had two shower heads with independent individual water flows.

As opposed to alternate water flow choices.

Or showers with only one shower head…

That stabbed you with a thousand needles of water…

When I say two shower heads, I mean that I enjoyed showers where a large diameter rainshower shower head was fixed from the ceiling of the shower, along with a hand-held shower head that was clipped to the wall of the shower.

And both shower heads would run at full strength at the same time.

[And I mean with a water pressure equal to the firehose scene in the movie “First Blood”]

A dribble of water was not going to cut it for me.

With such a dream, both shower heads were going to require their own individual temperature and pressure settings, that would be able to be controlled by whoever was taking a shower.

The choice of bathroom hardware [taps and nozzles etc] was Jayne’s domain. My only requirement was that because of the osteoarthritis in my hands, I needed taps and handles in our home to be levers rather than knobs or buttons.

The shower in our ensuite is tiled with Italian marble.

The bathroom does look magnificent….

We have one small problem….

The Astra Walker levers that Jayne selected for the shower controllers are absolutely beautiful, but they have no calibration.

What this means is that every shower requires a manual reset of temperature and pressure each and every time.

Now I do know that this can be something that does occur frequently in other showers around the world. And that not all showers have digital temperature displays for the anally obsessed out there.

But when it comes to gauges and markings, these beautiful levers have nothing.

Nought.

Nil.

Zero.

Zilch.

Even for those of us who are so OCD that we can spot a picture hanging crookedly on a wall from fifty metres away, we would all have trouble getting this shower temperature right first time every time.

Because even the act of flicking the levers forward to bring on water flow can divert the lever from the temperature setting that only twenty-four hours previously was your own personal nirvana.

I know… it’s a first world problem….

The interesting thing is…

The interesting thing is that there are people out there who go through their whole lives basing important decisions they need to be making on “feelings”, when there is data available to accurately determine whether what they are doing is correct, and on track, or needs adjustment.

These people often carry on what they are doing with ignorance, despite the fact that the data is available to correct their trajectory and get them back on track to where they know they should be going, rather than “hoping” that things will magically correct themselves.

Could you imagine a pilot flying a plane where every gauge and meter had no calibration, and was just based on feelings?

I’d be getting off that plane ASAP.

Yet some people manage their lives that way.

I’ve heard of employees who choose a job based on the percentage of their salary that gets added to their superannuation [retirement] accounts, yet they don’t know how that superannuation fund is investing and performing, and have never compared their superannuation fund to other better performing funds they could easily switch to…

They’re measuring the wrong numbers…

Wherever possible, I recommend to my clients and my friends, to be making decisions of importance for them on data instead of relying on emotion and feelings.

Especially when that data is easily available.

The temperature adjustments required in using our ensuite shower are a very minor inconvenience when reflecting on the beauty of the bathroom as a whole, and on the grandeur of the bathroom hardware.

But in life, failing to take the time and look logically at those decisions you are making on gut feeling, can lead to a lifetime of pain shrouded in the regret caused by those emotions of fear that should never have been influential at those times.

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