Shake it Off and Step Up!

Good advice.

There is a parable about a farmer whose old mule fell into a dry well. After assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule but decided that neither the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving. Instead, he planned to bury the old mule in the well and put him out of his misery.

When the farmer began shoveling, initially the old mule panicked. But then it dawned on the mule that every time a shovel load of dirt landed on his back he could shake it off and step up.

This he did blow after blow. “Shake it off and step up, shake it off and step up, shake it off and step up!” he repeated to encourage himself. It wasn’t long before the mule, battered and exhausted, stepped triumphantly out of the well.

What he thought would bury him actually benefited him—all because of the way he handled adversity.

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