Don’t let go of the wheel

Ali Raza Naimatullah
The story is about the former, who gets up every single day and he puts his grain on the back of the tractor, and he puts the tractor in gear, and he drives out a mile into the pasture to feed the cows and they all come running. He dumps the feed, and goes back to the barn. If he wakes up every single day for ten, fifteen, twenty years and starts the tractor, puts the feed on, puts in gear, and goes out to the same field, what will eventually happen? He will build ruts on the path to the cows. Eventually, he could just get up, through the grain on the back , start the tractor, pit it in gear, and let go of the wheel. That tractor will take him right out to that same spot he has been going to for years. Apply this story to your life and ask: Have you let go of the wheel? Do you have ruts that keep you doing same thing every day? It doesn’t necessarily mean your entire life is in the rut, but do you unconsciously do the same things daily expecting a different result? Do you have habits that make every day the same while simultaneously hoping an outside factor will change it? I am not judging. It happens to us all. Most people have let go of the wheel. But it doesn’t have to say that way. So here’s what’s important about that farmer’s story: To change that farmer’s direction, to change his destination, he doesn’t have to make a dramatic 180-degree turn. It’s not like new year’s resolution, where he feels the need to change everything about his self. But, if he gets up tomorrow and turned that wheel a quarter of an inch, by the time he got out mile in the field, he wouldn’t even be able to see his old feeding grounds because he would be so far away. Those ruts will be no more, because he’d be carving a new path, a quarter inch at a time. So, expecting new results or outcome or reaching a new destination isn’t about a magic pill or hitting the lotto, but it’s all about the changing your habits and direction.