Are you a duck?

A friend of mine owns a successful excavation company. This past week, he did us a huge favor by repairing our driveway. Afterwards, in a older brother kind of way, he told me to stop being like a duck and driving the same path down the drive way; that it is better for the driveway if I vary my path.

It got me to thinking. How many other things in our lives are we like ducks?

1. Personal Life: What if we have a "positive" surprise this week with something totally out of the ordinary? A mid week date night or flowers.

2. Work life: I believe a lot of the problem that we have at work is our unwillingness to try new things. This is the way we have always done it, this is the way we are always going to do it. This week try a different path, listen to a training tape, stop worrying about being the manager or the boss and allow the team to make some decisions, put away the cell phone, blackberry, and email for a day and just go see customers.

3. Spiritual Life: Sometimes we get in a rut here too. Our prayers sound the same, are at the same time and there is nothing personal about them. This week, get personal, get real, turn everything over to Him.

Try not to be a duck this week. Take a different route to work, meet someone new on the job, go forgive that person that you have been holding a grudge. If it works for driveways, it's has to be good for humans.

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