Life - turns out to b wat u want it to be...
There
was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small
Brazilian village.
As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a
small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The
businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it
take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a
short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch
even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to
feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then
asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman
replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea
and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the
afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my
buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance
throughout the night.”
The businessman offered a
suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I
could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you
should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible.
When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch
even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set
up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and
distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village
and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other
branches.”
The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The
businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in
your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float
your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The
fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says,
“After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the
fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then
return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife,
and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the
guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The
fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?
