The Three Bricklayers

A story that well summarizes the power of Vision, is the story of three bricklayers. The story goes, that three bricklayers were working side by side.

When asked, “What are you doing?”, the first bricklayer replied:

“I’m laying bricks.”

The second bricklayer was asked. He answered,

“Feeding my family.”

The third bricklayer when asked the question,

“What are you doing?”, responded,

“I’m building a cathedral.”

Yesterday’s email talked about enthusiasm. It’s hard to have enthusiasm without a vision of the future that you are excited about.

When someone asks you what you do for a living, how do you respond?

Do you respond with enthusiasm and an answer with some vision of the future?

And this goes further than what you do for a living.

If someone caught you at home on a Saturday and asked you what you are doing, how would you respond?

Do you have a vision for yourself outside of work? Do you have a vision for your family?

These are some challenging questions and they aren’t easily answered for most of us.

Spend a few minutes today thinking about how you would answer the question “What are you doing?”

Jake