Breaking The Machine

A friend of mine told me an interesting story that was useful to me--I thought I'd share it. Early in his career, my friend worked in a manufacturing plant--on an assembly line. It was challenging work, and he struggled in the beginning. He wasn't sure he was going to be able to do it. He was trying to match his pace to the pace of the machine, but he just couldn't keep up with the machine. But as he looked around at the old-timers working at their stations, he noticed something remarkable. They weren't having any trouble at all with keeping up with the machine, because they weren't working at the pace of the machine--they were working faster than the machine. They had developed their skills to the point that they were always way ahead of where the machine was. When he set his goal to be faster than the machine rather than as fast as the machine, the skills he needed to be successful in that job soon developed. We all have a daily routine--a machine. Too