Everyday of your life you are building a house - your own house.
Dear community let me share with all of you a story .
In a certain town there was a carpenter specialised in building houses. He was so perfect and constructed so many beautiful houses. Each day he was very satisfied especially from receiving gifts and kind words from owners of houses he built. At length he became tired and had to go on retirement. He went to his employer and told him dear I am so tired l have to go home and rest and I believe I deserve it.
After a long silence, the employer thoughtfully answered him. Yes I know you have worked so hard and definitely deserve a good rest. But one more request, there is a last house you have to build. The owner wanted only you to do that job. Reluctantly the builder accepted though with very low spirit.
He started the job. With very low spirit he messed everything up. The mixtures where far from being real. In fact the house after finishing was just a mess and very much unlike our trusted builder for years. Finally the day came for the handing over the keys to the owner. It was a big ceremony and the builder was invited.
The employer stood up to speak. This is what he said. Thank you everyone for being here today. I am very happy to announce to everyone that my trusted builder is going on retirement. Yes he deserve this rest, he spent all his time working so hard. I have nothing, nothing to give him to appreciate all these years of hard work. But the only thing I will do is to present him with this; he handed the keys of the most recently built house to the builder. This is for your hard work with us.
The builder was happy but sad for not constructing that house perfectly. If only he knew in advance.
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Sounds like a lesson for website-building, am I right?
Thanks so much for a great lesson and reminder!
Every job we do should be done as if we were doing it for ourselves :)