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Thursday, August 14
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An aggressive businessman told his doctor he was stressed with work.
"I take my briefcase home every night and it's packed with work," he said with nervous inflection.
"Cannot someone else do it or help you with it?" asked the doctor.
"No", the man snapped, "I am only one who can do it as it must be done, and it has to be done quickly".
The doctor's prescription was: The patient was to take off two hours every working day and go for a long walk. He was to take off a half-day a week and spend that half-day in a cemetery.
In astonishment, the patient demanded, "Why should i spend a half-day in a cemetery?"
"Because", answered the doctor, "I want you to wander around and look at the gravestones of men who are there permanently. I want you to meditate upon the fact that many of them are there because they thought even as you do, that the whole worldrested on their shoulders. Meditate on the solemn fact that when you get there permanently, the world will go on just the same and, important as you are, others will be able to do the same work you are now doing".
The patient slowed his pace. He learned to delegate authority. He stopped fumingand fretting. And it might be added, he now does better work.
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