Story of The Day (The Best Way To Start Your Day With A Lesson From Jungle of Success) So here I am, again with a different story with a great lesson and believe me if you follow it, you see a big difference in your life. I promise...!! So without discussing anything now, lets just jump to the story and see what we can learn today. There was a carpenter who was hired to help a man restore an old farmhouse had just finished his first day on the job and everything that could possibly go wrong went wrong. First of all, on his way to work he had a flat tire that cost him an hour’s worth of pay, then his electric saw broke, and after work his old pickup truck refused to start. Really a bad day right!! His new boss volunteered to give him a lift home and the whole way to his house the carpenter sat in stone silence as he stared out his window. Yet on arriving, he invited his boss in for a few minutes to meet his family. As they walked toward the front door, he paused briefly at a small tree, touching the tips of the branches with both hands. When he opened the door, he underwent an amazing transformation. His tanned face was one big smile as he hugged his two small children and kissed his wife. Afterwards, the man walked his boss to his car to say thank you. Now on their way out of the house, the boss’ curiosity got the best of him so he had to ask the man about the tree on the front porch. He said, I noticed when you came up on the porch before going into your house you stopped and touched the tree, why? .(If I were at his place, I would have asked him this inside the home only “Oh, that’s my trouble tree,” he replied. “I know I can’t stop from having troubles out on the job, but one thing’s for sure – my troubles don’t belong in the house with my wife and children. So I just hang them up on the tree every night when I come home. Then in the morning I pick them up again.” “Funny thing is,” he smiled, “when I come out in the morning to pick ‘em up, they aren’t nearly as many as I remember hanging up the night before.” -------- What a great idea! We should all come up with our own symbolic “Trouble Tree” to drop our problems off at night before we enter our homes. I am going to try it myself and report back on whether it makes a difference or not. If anyone else has ideas like this story that they have found helpful please share them. I am always happy to hear new ideas on how to handle stress – we can all use them! #JungleOfSuccess
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 04:02:31 +0000
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