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今天为大伙带来的是“Life Is a Do-It-Yourself Project”，自己动手创造我们的生活。
Life Is a Do-It-Yourself Project
An elderly carpenter was ready to retire.
he told his employer contractor of his plans to leave the house building business and live a more leisurely life with his wife enjoying his extended family.
He would miss the paycheck, but he needed to retire.
They could get by.
The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go and asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor.
The carpenter said yes, but in time it was easy to see that his heart was not in his work.
He resorted to shooddy workmanship and used inferior materials.
It was an unfortunate way to end his career.
When the carpenter finished his work and the builder came to inspect the house, the contractor handed the front door key to the carpenter.
This is your house, he said, my gift to you.
What a shock!
What a shame!
If he had only known he was building his own house, he would have done it all so differently.
Now he had to live in the home he had built none too well.
So it is with us.
We build our lives in a distracted way, reacting rather than acting, willing to put up less than the best.
At important points we do not give the job our best effort.
Then with a shock we look at the situation we have created and find that we are now living in the house we have built.
生活是一个自己动手的项目
一位年迈的木匠筹备退休了。他告诉他的老板他筹备离开建筑业的计划，他说他想和他的老婆过一种更休闲的生活，享受天伦之乐。他还说他会怀念这里的薪水的，但他需要退休了，他的辞职他们慢慢就会适应的。
老板对他的这位出色职员的离去感到很遗憾，于是问他能否盖最后一栋房屋作为私下里的帮忙。这位木匠答应了，但显而易见他做事的时候是心神不定的，他的手工做得毛毛糙糙，用的材料也是次品。
如此结束他的事业是不幸的，当木匠最后完工，老板来看房屋时，他把前门的钥匙交给木匠说，“这是你的房屋，是我送给你的礼物。”
震撼！羞愧！假如他早了解他是在盖我们的房屋，他一定会做得完全不同的，目前他不能不住在自己建的糟糕透顶的房屋里面。
这个道理同样合适大家，在打造生活时，大家的精力被分散到太多的地方，大家只不过被动地适应而不会主动行动，而大家自己也不想去尽心尽力地打造大家的生活。在要紧的时刻大家也没能尽自己最大的努力做好工作。然后大家吃惊地看到自己所做的所有：发现自己就处在自己营建的房屋里。假如大家早意识到这一点的话，大家的做法就会完全不同。
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