Ha.. lame title, isn’t it? Just woke up from a power nap and feel like writing something but the brain is just not working. So I ask for my friend’s opinion and that’s the topic my friend suggested to me. Lame lame…

Clearing my hard disk now so that I could migrate all the useful information to my brand new laptop, compliment from OIH, and found a very interesting story from a friend sitting deep inside a folder and thinking of sharing with you guys here.

Here goes the story………

The Empty Field

A factory worker grew tired of accepting long hours, little pay, and a tyrant for a boss, so he left the city for the country. He wanted to harvest his own crop and reap the wealth of the earth. He took his entire savings and bought a piece of land from a farmer.

“It’s good land,” the farmer said. “Lots of potential. It’ll yield you a decent crop.”

Excited at the idea of one day harvesting a great bounty, the factory worker thanked the farmer with a hearty handshake. The he walked out and sat in the middle of the field. He imagined all the crops he would enjoy.

Over there would be corn. On that other side carrots and cabbage. On the end, he’d grow turnips. He loved sweet fruit, so he’d have strawberries and blueberries too. It would be pure joy to eat food grown from a field he owned.

The factory worker spent a long time imagining his harvest. He barely noticed the changes in the weather.

One crisp cool day, the farmer found him lost in thought in the empty field.

“Oh, hello,” the factory worker said when he stopped daydreaming long enough to notice the farmer. “What are you doing here?”

“I got my harvest in. I thought I’d see if you needed a hand with yours.”

The factory worker blinked. “I don’t have one yet.”

“Didn’t you plant any crops?”

“Well, I bought the land. I guess I thought…”

“It’d grow on its own?” the farmer asked, mouth dropping in disbelief. “It doesn’t work that way. The land’s just the beginning. You have to put in work to see a harvest.”

That’s the end of the story and how’s it? So, what’s the morale of the story?

MOVE YOUR ASS NOW AND TAKE ACTION! The more you do, the nearer you are moving towards your goal.

I think each and every one of us has an equally fair chance to be where you want to be and the only difference that separates us from those on the top is that they are willing to take action although they failed more than us. Obviously they learnt from the valuable experience. :0)

I always ask myself whether I have done enough and the answer is always a no no. And that’s why I’m still stuck at where I am now. I always know that I would need to do something different now in order to be a bit more different.

Have been a bit slack recently but I think it’s time for me to buck up now, just like how I realise no food will be fed if I keep on staying on my comfort bed…

It’s dinner time now……….

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