A Quick Story to Help You Enjoy the Holidays
What are you working so hard for?
A quick parable to demonstrate a valuable lesson: The Fisherman and the Businessman.
I want you to ask yourself one question as you wrap up for the year and race around to meet deadlines, shop, plan, and push yourself to get it all done.
What is it that you actually want right now?
And then see if your actions are getting you closer to that, or if they are keeping you from what you want most. Read this short parable about the fisherman and the businessman to help demonstrate my point:
The Fisherman and the Businessman
This is copied and pasted from online, this is not my original writing:
There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”
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So I will ask you again - What do you REALLY want right now?
Is it to relax with your family? Take some time for you? Exercise? Make a meal? Enjoy a movie?
Are you running around so that you can make it special for everyone at some date in the future (that never ends up feeling as special as you planned)?
Are the activities you are filling your day with getting you closer or further from your goal? Sometimes we work so hard to take on activities because we think it will get us what we want eventually. But if we cut out some of those tasks, we could actually enjoy those things RIGHT NOW.
Wishing you peace and the ability to enjoy what you want, NOW.
Sharon
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