Ack! I am missing many days of posting. Due to (slowly) deteriorating medical condition I have had to add a new pharmaceutical to my protocol and there is an adjustment period so energy is down plus I was gone a few days plus when I had some energy I took on too many projects plus some other rationalizations. So here is a quickie plucked from an email Laxmi Honest sent me:
One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.
My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car by just inches! The driver of the other car whipped his head around and started yelling at us.
My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was really friendly.
So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that? This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’
This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call, ‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’
He explained that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment.
As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you. Don’t take it personally.
Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.
The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take over their day.
Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so … Love the people who treat you right.
Pray for the ones who don’t.
Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!
Have a garbage-free day!
October 2, 2009 at 11:32 am
Nice post. When I was 19 I returned to my home town of Chicago from Grand Forks, North Dakota to work as a garbage man. Garbage can teach us a lot. In addition to the lesson in this blog, one can learn the following: not to drive your garbage truck underneath a huge sign who’s bottom is lower than the top of your truck; how to back a big garbage truck down a long alley with a minimum of damage to cars and garbage cans; that drinking beer on a hot Chicago day and then realizing that you only did half your route is an unpleasant experience; and that being a garbage man means $10 an hour and all you can eat!
October 2, 2009 at 6:56 pm
The all you can eat is a wieeerd image, for a garbage man.
October 3, 2009 at 8:31 am
Awesome post!
October 4, 2009 at 9:01 pm
It is really about positive thinking and not letting others have power over you.
October 13, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Thanks for posting this great story! My name is Dawn, and I work with David J. Pollay, the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck™. I just wanted to stop by and let you know that you can read the original story on David’s blog, http://davidjpollay.typepad.com/david_j_pollay/lawofthegarbagetruck.html. It would mean a lot to us if you would let people know that David is the author of The Law of the Garbage Truck.
You can also find out more information about The Law of the Garbage Truck on http://www.thelawofthegarbagetruck.com. Make sure to check out the video of people in New York City taking the No Garbage Trucks!™ Pledge: http://www.bewareofgarbagetrucks.com. It’s pretty cool.
Thanks again!
Dawn
dawn@themomentumproject.com