Recently, most of my contacts in MSN Messenger are under Busy status. Oh well. I don’t know what keeping them so busy but somehow reminds me to go through a short story from Steven Covey titled “Busy”
Busy
by: Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective PeopleOnce upon a time a very strong woodcutter ask for a job in a timber merchant, and he got it. The paid was really good and so were the work conditions. For that reason, the woodcutter was determined to do his best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area where he was supposed to work.
The first day, the woodcutter brought 18 trees
“Congratulations,” the boss said. “Go on that way!”
Very motivated for the boss’ words, the woodcutter try harder the next day, but he only could bring 15 trees. The third day he try even harder, but he only could bring 10 trees.Day after day he was bringing less and less trees.
“I must be losing my strength”, the woodcutter thought. He went to the boss and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was going on.
“When was the last time you sharpened your axe?” the boss asked.
“Sharpen? I had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been very busy trying to cut trees…”
We need to take time off and look back. Ponder. Evaluate. Think. Procastinate. No matter what keeping you so busy, always have some time out for yourself. Even it’s busy pretending busy.
On this day..
- Why go temple when depressed? - 2008
- Wolf Love Sheep - 2007
- The Car You Drive - 2007
- trigger happy - 2007
- Tinting The Transparency - 2007
- Legally tiniest swimsuit - 2007
- Leaver - 2006
- Definitely Not A Noob - 2006
- 36 - 2006
- MyTeam vs Malaysia - 2006
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