Larry was a savage. A vagrant pauper living in a mud hut in the outskirts of town in a village in eastern Europe. The year was 1468 and King Augustus was a fair and generous leader. Larry was so used to hunting and fishing for food that he didn’t understand or appreciate the value of precious stones. One day, Larry was walking down the road when he heard two of the Kings soldiers plotting to kill the king. Their plan was to sneak poison berries into the Kings breakfast. Larry rushed to the King to inform him of the plot. Lo and Behold, the Kings men searched the plotters quarters and found the poison berries, which were promptly fed to the treasonous soldiers.
King Augustus, profoundly grateful to Larry, gave him several empty burlap sacks, and “shopping-spree” access to the royal treasury. Since Larry didn’t understand or appreciate the value of precious jewels, he mistook his good fortune for a punishment of slave labor.
He didn’t understand why the king was punishing him with forced labor of arbitrarily filling empty burlap sacks with heavy stones and rocks.
Luckily for Larry, the kings guards left him alone and unattended in the king’s treasury. Larry took the opportunity to slack off. He thought, “I can totally get away with doing almost none of this work they sentenced me to. I can probably slack off all day and go home with just a few stones in the bags and no one would be the wiser.”
Here’s my question for you…”If you had the opportunity Larry had to basically have a shopping spree in the kings treasure house, would you work your tail off every single available free second filling those sacks with precious jewels, or would you make sure your boss isn’t looking and check Reddit to see if any new cats learned to stand, or if any monkeys decided to pet a duck?!”
There is really only ONE reason for not succeeding. It’s Called, Undervaluing Your Time!
