Working Hard... Too Hard?

WHY DO YOU WORK SO HARD.......?

IF SOME IS GOOD, IS MORE BETTER?

         

What about this....

If two aspirin get rid of your headache in 30 minutes, wouldn't it be better to take ten of them so you could get rid of the headache in six minutes? 

Of course not!

IF SOME IS GOOD, MORE IS NOT ALWAYS BETTER.

Sometimes LESS is MORE.

Once there was a small logging company in the Pacific Northwest.

One day they hired a former pro football player.

This huge 300-pounder was not only incredibly strong but also in great cardiovascular shape. On his first day he came to work his first day with a "I'm going to show you guys who I am" attitude.

He went and got an ax and quickly starting chopping.  Every once in a while, he noticed all of the other lumberjacks taking breaks, walking up and down the road.  Not him, he kept going.  Non stop, he chopped and chopped and chopped.

At the end of the day, all the workers met in the boss' office to get their pay which was based on the number of trees they chopped down. The new guy went first and and proudly told the boss that he chopped down twenty-one trees.

There were chuckles from the other men.  Embarrassed, the big guy pointed to an older man and defiantly asked him how many trees he chopped down?

"Sixty-four.  He asked another... "Fifty-six." Then they all chimed in... "Forty-four." "Fifty-one." "Sixty-eight." "Seventy."

Totally humbled, he asked, "I was working much harder than you guys. How could all of you chop down so many trees when you all were taking so many breaks?"

The oldest of the men said, "Young fella, you're working too hard. When you thought we were taking breaks, we were walking to the shed to sharpen our axes. You got to take time to sharpen your ax."

WORK SMART, NOT HARD and KEEP YOUR AX SHARP!

Greg DiRenzo, M.S.

Performance Coach, Trainer, Motivator

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