Concept from the Morning Guy: The Builder

There was as soon as a builder who had labored for years and was drained. He instructed his employer he wanted to retire. Soon after all the a long time they experienced labored collectively, the employer was sad to see his worker leave, so he pleaded with the builder to do a single very last occupation before he left.

This was not what the builder had expected. It was a Friday, and he had hoped for a thoroughly clean break, so he could straight away start fishing that weekend. But as a substitute, he was going to start off developing a four-bed room household on Monday.

All during that remaining undertaking, the builder moaned and groaned and grumbled. His coronary heart was basically not in his get the job done. All he could feel about was all the time he was not spending on the bank of the peaceful river guiding his house, casting his rod out to the obliging fish. He truly did not want to be digging foundations and mixing cement.

He took out his frustrations on the task, reducing corners and applying inferior elements, just to get the occupation done speedily and go home. Whomever finished up residing there would surely be in for some awful surprises, but the builder would be extensive gone by then.

At some point, the dwelling was constructed, and his employer, the contractor, arrived to inspect the function. Just after a quick walk all over the assets, the builder handed the keys to his employer. To his surprise, on the other hand, the employer handed them ideal again to the builder and said, “this residence is my reward to you. For all your a long time of service”.

You can undoubtedly think about the feeling of horror that overcame the builder when he realised that all that shoddy work he had completed was for himself. He wished with all his coronary heart he experienced known in the commencing that he was constructing for himself. Now, he would have to are living in the swiftly created demise entice he had designed for himself.

My good friends, there are considerably also a lot of of us residing the lifestyle of the Builder. We method our function with this sort of a absence of treatment, predominantly for the reason that it is not our individual company. We address shoppers anyhow, since they are not our customers. We abuse office environment gear, produce on furnishings, desecrate communal toilet amenities, abuse, misapply and misappropriate cash, abuse staff members, all because none of it is ours. 

We complain about our work, no matter how higher we climb the corporate ladder or nevertheless a lot we’re paid out. As significantly as we are worried, there are much better factors we could be performing with our time, so we really do not want to spend an hour for a longer period than we have to at operate.

What we have not yet realised is that we are actually doing this harm, all the shoddy perform we’re putting in, is heading in the direction of building our own deathtrap.

Each time we put up a bad performance at work, when we’re thieving income from the coffers, when we’re currently being impolite to the customers,when we’re turning up late, when we’re on facebook as a substitute of on process,whose corporation are we collapsing?

And whose nation is this in any case? Is not it ours? So when we’re littering, when we’re defecating on the seaside, when we’re driving over the speed limit by way of pink lights, when we’re insulting people today just simply because they have various beliefs from us, when we’re threatening each other’s life just mainly because we want them to vote like us, whose state are we destroying in any case?

Or, are we pondering, like the Builder that the issues we’re producing will not manifest right up until soon after we’re long long gone? Think once more, my good friends, for the reason that we are not destroying anyone else’s everyday living or enterprise or state by not staying our finest. You cannot destroy what you really do not initially possess.

It’s our very own lives that are about to arrive crashing around our ears if we never wake up and consider possession of our very own mess. 

For me, the rule is straightforward: It’s improved to do it proper from the really commencing, because a single of these days, somebody is going to hand you the keys and inform you to occupy your individual mess. 

My name is Kojo Yankson, and I possess this, so I handle it with treatment.

GOOD MORNING, GHANAFO!