Yo Readers, its 2011 already and its almost a year since the last time I updated this blog.
Whats the update on myself ? Finally stable a bit nowadays, and seeking to improve myself slowly like a turtle. Today feel like sharing about a story of a goose and a golden egg.
Someday, a farmer goose lay down a golden egg. He feel not right, and check the egg. It was a pure gold ~ He take and sell the egg and he make a fortune as the goose lay down 1 egg per day.
A few months later, the farmer is getting more and more excited because the goose keep on producing gold eggs and think that there is many many golden eggs inside the goose.
Due to greediness, in the end, the farmer killed the goose. Buthe found nothing inside the goose.
The farmer regret because he's too focus on the Production(eggs), and sacrificed/neglected the Production asset(the goose)
In nowadays life, I notice many of the people tend to focus on the "outcome", or the actual production. For example, you want your employee to get the work done. You want your kids to clean his room. You want your boyfriend to be macho and make many money. You want your GF to treat you like king. You want to be rich and make 100k. Finally, you want this and that.
But, looking back do you think its the best thing if you could get all this come true? I bet you won't be as happy as you think.
I've read a book , this life is needed to be balanced. The Production, and the Production Capability/Asset. For example, making money by working hard like shit but neglecting the Production assest(ourself) is not balanced. What happen if the asset is down somedays? or the maintenance fees to be higher?
Or in a very common situation, where you want your kids to get some work done? YES, typically you want yell at them, shout at them if necessary, and force them with your current position / power / physical strength and tell them what to do and how to do, and tell them you're RIGHT.
See what happen, YES you got your desired job done and congrats :)
and YES, you've just sacrifice something. Your kids will not be as dependent , and they missed out the opportunities to think themself , practically reasoning methods and you increased the relationship border between both of you.
This principles can be applied to almost any social life. So I hope that we will start to focus more on the production asset & production capability rather than the actual production itself.
Life shall be balanced :)
16 February 2011
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2 comments:
Hi, danilo, how are you? Glad to see your new post here. Been very long since you last update your blog. This is a really nice post and it gives me a new insight. Mind sharing the book that you mentioned?
Doing so far so good here as usual, hope same for you too.
The book is called 7 habits of highly effective people :)
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