You wouldn't navigate a city using a map from five years ago. The roads have changed - new one-way streets, more traffic lights and dead ends where there used to be open road.

 

It’s easy to think you’re saving time with back street workarounds but inevitably, those shortcuts become a convoluted maze.

 

You stop looking at the whole route and start reacting to the next red light.

 

Your "fastest route" from five years ago is likely what’s slowing you down today. 

 

If you don't reconcile where you are with where you're going, you’re just burning fuel in a traffic jam of your own making.

 

If the map no longer matches the road, it’s time to redraw the directions.