Salon and Spa Owners: Which Monk Are You?

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Copyright © 2011 Dan Lok


Someone told me this story. It made a lot of sense to me, hope it does for you.

Two devoted monks find themselves bound together as companions, traveling by foot for a great distance.

At one point, they'd been traveling without a break for many hours and they come upon a woman sitting on the edge of a river bank crying. The woman turns to them and explains with passion and feeling how she must get back across the river to her children, but because she is too tired and weary... she doesn't think she can safely cross the river again due to the strong and steady currents.

She asks the monks would they please help her across the river, letting them know how grateful she would be.

The two monks pause and look at one another, and immediately, the older monk picks up the woman and safely carries her across the river.

The older monk returns and they continue their journey. Sometime later, the younger monk is staring at him, horrified.

See, one of the many oaths these monks had taken, was to never EVER touch a woman.

And the younger monk simply doesn't understand how the older monk could, in good conscience, violate this most important oath.

However, too intimated to ask the older monk, the younger monk says nothing, and the two of them carry on for the remainder of their journey.

One hour passes... then two ... and then a third hour.

And all during this time, the tension is building inside the younger monk. He simply can NOT understand how the older monk had the audacity to pick up that woman and carry her across the river.

Finally, after four hours, the young monk can no longer contain himself, and he gushes forth, "Sir, how could you have picked up that woman back there on the river bed?"

To which the old monk replies, "Oh, are you still carrying her around? I put her down four hours ago."

Too many salon and spa owners are carrying around a lot hurts, regrets, guilt, past failures and fears about the future. They carry them around like a sack of rocks on their backs. The sad thing is they carry these things around voluntarily. No one is forcing you to carry these emotional rocks.

Your mind could care less whether or not you are burdened with these issues, or... whether you put them down on the side of the river bed. However, how your life turns out, the amount of success, love and happiness you experience... is directly related to how big that sack is on your back, and how long you want to carry it around for.

I don't know about you, but to me... it makes a lot of sense to put that sack down. Is it time you put your sack down?




About the Author:
Dan Lok was a college dropout working as a grocery bagger in a local supermarket for minimum wage when he set out to make something of himself. A true immigrant success story - Dan came to North America as a teenager with little knowledge of English and no contacts. He became a self-made millionaire by the age of twenty-seven. Dan wrote about his experience of opening a successful salon in his book Lies Salon Owners Believe And The Truth That Sets Them Free. Visit Dan at: http://www.salonbusinessexpert.com/


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