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Law of the Garbage Truck

Posted on July 24, 2013 | Leave a comment

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One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.  We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches!  The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.  My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.  And I mean, he was really friendly. So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that?  This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!”

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’ He explained that many people are like garbage trucks.  They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.  Don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.  Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets. The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.  Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so … Love the people who treat you right.  Pray for the ones who don’t. “Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!”

 

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Maturity Is……..

Posted on July 12, 2013 | Leave a comment
  1. The ability to do a job whether you are supervised or not; finish a job once it is started; carry money without spending it, and be able to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
  2. The ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.
  3. Patience.  It is the willingness to postpone immediate gratification in favor of the long-term gain.
  4. Perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks.
  5. The capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat without being bitter, complaint or collapse.
  6. Humility.  It is being big enough to say, “I was wrong” and I am sorry.” And, when right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, “I told you so!”
  7. The ability to make a decision and stand by it.  The immature spend their lives exploring endless possibilities; then they do nothing.
  8. Dependability, integrity, and keeping one’s word.  It coming through in a risis.  The immature-have excuses for everything.  The immature are masters of the alibi.  They are confused and disorganized.  They are the chronically tardy, the-no shows the gutless wonders who fold in the crises.  Their lives are a maze of broken promises, former friends, unfinished business and good intentions that somehow never materialized.
  9. The art of living in peace with that which we-cannot change, the courage to change that which can be changed and the wisdom to know the difference!
  10. Something each of us possesses large-or small-pockets of immaturity: the totally mature individual does not exist.  Nor does one grow up all at once. Like  physical growth, emotional growth is achieved one day at a time.
  11. Unselfishness, responding to the needs of others.

 

 

 

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