Shake it off !

Here is a great story that talks about how to deal with adversity.


The story goes that there was an old farmer in south Louisiana who had a mule that was older than the farmer. The mule had was so old that the farmer didn't have much use for him anymore. One day the farmer decided that he was going to put the old mule out of his misery, so he dug a grave for the mule. The problem was that the farmer had the mule so long that it was like a friend to him, he couldn'
t muster the courage to kill him. So the farmer decided to lower the mule in the grave and then just begin shoveling dirt on top of him.

However, the mule had a different plan...see every time the farm through a shovel full of dirt in the grave it would hit the mule's back and instead of just standing there the mule would just shake the dirt off his back and then step up on the new dirt that was thrown in the grave. Much to the farmers surprise after a few minutes of shoveling dirt the mule just walked right out of the hole that was intended to be his grave.


We can all learn a lesson from this old mule. See every time that he was hit with opposition he would just shake it off and then step up. If we could just learn to be thick skinned like the mule and not let opposition and criticism get us down, each of our lives would end up drastically differnt.

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