Story-Sharpen Your Axe
Once upon a time, there were two woodcutters named Banwarilal and Mungerilal. They were often at loggerheads over who chops more wood. So one day, they decided to hold a competition to determine the winner. The rules were simple—whoever cuts the most wood in a day wins.
So the next day morning, both of them took up their positions in the forest and started chopping away at their fastest possible speed. This lasted for an hour before Banwarilal suddenly stopped. When Mungerilal realized that there was no chopping sound from his opponent’s side, he thought: “Ah Ha! He must be tired already!” And he continued to cut down his trees with double the pace.
A quarter of an hour passed, and Mungerilal heard his opponent chopping again. So both of them carried on synchronously. Mungerilal was starting to feel weary when the chopping from Banwarilal stopped once again. Feeling motivated and smelling victory close by, Mungerilal continued on, with a smile on his face.
This went on the whole day. Every hour, Banwarilal would stop chopping for fifteen minutes while Mungerilal kept going relentlessly. So when the competition ended, Mungerilal was absolutely confident that he would take the triumph.
But to Mungerilal’s astonishment, Banwarilal had actually cut down more wood. How did this even happen?
Banwarilal’s answer to this was, “Well, it’s really simple. Every time I stopped work, while you were still chopping down trees, I was sharpening my Axe.
Learnings from the story
1. Business owners are busy. Most of us are just too busy doing and trying to achieve; we don’t take the necessary time to renew ourselves, to learn and grow—to sharpen the “Axe”.
2. Effectiveness is doing right things and efficiency is doing things right. Our job is to do right things first and then do those things right. This is the mantra of Productivity.
Questions to ask ourselves
1. What are the areas of my business where I need to shapen my Axe?
2. What are the opportunities I have been able to attract and present in front of me to renew, learn and grow?
3. What is that one immediate small action I need to take in this direction?
Come lets sharper our saw. Consider this as a personal invitation to our half-day seminar “Put your Business on Autopilot”
Here’s what I commit, you will learn in this Seminar
1.How to at least DOUBLE your income.
2.How to build a valuable business which can be sold in part or full if needed.
3.& How to PUT your Business on AUTOPILOT, which WORKS and GROWS without you.
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