Focus on destination

Focus on destination

Two Spanish friends set out on a mini-truck and headed off to a jungle to indulge in a deer hunt. Parking at a distance they set off into the bushes to a vantage point down in the valley, waiting for their prey.

After a few hours of many failed attempts, they finally managed to shoot down a deer. And then began the long journey back to their truck.

The two friends clasped the deer’s tail and began to drag it towards their truck. A farmer saw them struggling and shouted out some advice: “ That’s not the way to do it! God made handles for you to drag the deer. You see the antlers on the deer? Those horn like things? Hold that – and pull the deer!”

The two friends looked at each other and decided to heed the advice. They went to the other side, grabbed the deer’s antlers and continued to drag it.

Ten minutes later, one of them said, “The farmer was right. It’s much easier this way!”.

“That’s right” said his partner, “only problem is we are moving farther and farther away from our truck”.

Lessons to Learn from This Story:

In our pursuit to make things easier now, we often lose sight of what we are initially set-out to do, diverting us from our destination.