Years ago I was a district sales manager with a retail company and I was doing a store visit with one of my managers. We were reorganizing some storage and moved a box off a shelf in the warehouse and sat it on the floor. It needed to have some numbers looked up so it could be returned.
About a month later I returned and noticed the box still sitting there and, trying to give a very busy manager a break, didn't say anything about it but made a mental note of its presence.
Three weeks later when I returned the box was still there and now it had two other boxes and a file folder on top of it. It had sort of morphed into a cardboard desk if you will.
The story of the box reminds me of our lives, all the things we put off till another time, usually the things that cause conflict or require confrontation or extra work. Putting things off in and of itself isn't a terrible thing, but often it causes other things in our lives to pile up on top as well.
The manager of this store had just stepped over the box for so long, it no longer looked out of place to him, in other words he was just living with it.
Maybe all of us should look at our lives and discover the "boxes" that need to be dealt with so we can stop stepping over the conflicts that keep us from being whole....just a thought.
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