06/30/2024
MONOTONOUS REPETITIVE BORING—Doing The Same Thing Over & Over Again! The picture of me is at our family’s Tamarack Farm Pizza & Winery pitching in to help the servers roll a lot of silverware because we have been slammed with folks lined up out the door! After awhile rolling silverware, I had an employee walk by me and ask—“Well have you had your fill of rolling silverware yet?” And I looked at the employee with a huge smile and exclaimed with robust spirit—“I love rolling silverware!!!”
Then I went on to explain that early on in my career I learned that success as a business owner isn’t always filled with wild adventurous fun & excitement but owning a business can be at times very repetitive and boring doing the same thing over & over again. Having started my own wholesale plant business at age 19, I was planting up beautiful little dish gardens and really unique beautiful terrariums that I was wholesaling to Chicagoland florists. And often I would have to plant up hundreds of these little dish gardens and to get me through the day I had a saying—“I do what other people will not do” which I repeated every single time over & over again with every repetitive dish garden I had to plant up. Because I said this over & over again hundreds of times a day, I think I ingrained in my head to be accepting of the fact that in life you must be OK with doing things others won’t do.
WHAT I DO MAKES OTHER PEOPLE HAPPY AND BLESSED!
The more I thought about this, I realized that the reason why I need to roll hundreds & hundreds of napkins & silverware bundles is because we are really busy and making a lot of people happy! In fact, my little bundles of napkins & silverware are “Blessings” –every time a customer unravels the silverware—they are about to be blessed enjoying my tasty mouthwatering food! And I picture families with kids all smiling having the time of their life enjoying may tasty, delicious food. So now the bucket of all our rolled napkins & silverware is really “A Bucket of Blessings!”
This reminds of a story—
The Bricklayer and The Cathedral Builder
A man was walking down a street past a construction site, and he overheard one of the bricklayers moaning and complaining about all the heavy bricks he had to carry and how backbreaking this work was and exhausting. As this man continued down the street, he heard some spirited happy beautiful whistling and he saw another bricklayer who was smiling and no doubt very happy! This compelled the man to ask this bricklayer why he was so happy? The happy bricklayer replied, “I love my work and I am building a beautiful cathedral so that families can come here and worship our heavenly father. Babies will get baptized here and young people will get married in this beautiful cathedral and this makes me very proud and happy!”
From now on, I hope I’ve shared a life tip that whenever you are doing something that seems so exasperating monotonous, repetitive, and boring is that you will be inspired to know that you are doing something that will make people happy and blessed—so that you can’t help but start whistling a happy spirited tune with the biggest smile you have!
Have a great day—“Famous Dave”
