Beware of Garbage Trucks:vamsi.Gogineni

How often do you let other people's nonsense change your mood? Do you let a baddriver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive colleagueruin your day? Unless you're a robot, you are bound to blow your top off. However, the mark of a sucessful person is how quickly he or shecan get back his or her focus on what's important.Sixteen years ago, I learned this lesson. I learn it in the back of a New YorkCity taxi cab. Here's what happen.I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were drivingin the right lane when, all of a sudden, a black car jumped outof a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes,skidded, and missed the other car's back end by just inches!The driver of the other car, the guy wh! o almost caused a big accident, whippedhis head around and he started yelling bad words at us.My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean he was reallyfriendly. So, I said, "Why did you do that? This guy almostruined your car and sent us to the hospital!"And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now called, 'The Law of theGarbage Truck'.Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full offrustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. Astheir garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it. If they happen to dump iton you, don't take it personally.You just smile, wave, wish them well, and moved on. You'll be happier if youdid that rather than fight them.So this was it: 'The Law of the Garbage Truck'.I started thinking, how often do I let garbage trucks run right over me? And howoften do I take the! ir garbage and spread it to otherpeople: at work, at home, on the street? It was that day I said, "I'm not goingto do it anymore." I see garbage trucks everywhere andeveryday. I see the load they're carrying. I see them coming to drop it off. And like my taxi driver, I don't make it a personal thing; Ijust smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.Good leaders know they have to be ready for their next meeting. Good parentsknow they have to welcome their kids home from school with hugsand kisses. Teachers and parents know that they have to be fully present and attheir best for the people they care about.The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks take overtheir day. What about you? What would happen in your life, startingtoday, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?Here's my bet. You'll be happier.So ... love the people who treat you ! right.Forget about the ones who don't.Believe that every thing happens for a reason.If you get a chance, TAKE IT!If it changes your life, LET IT!Nobody said it would be easy ....They just promised it would be WORTH IT