STORY: How To Make A Job Easy by Corinne Updegraff Wells

Story title: How To Make A Job Easy
by: Corinne Updegraff Wells


When I was small, my brothers and I were expected to keep the vegetable garden weeded. Of course, we hated the job and we would put it off as long as possible and usually we ended up using a precious Saturday catching up on our work.
    One day a visiting uncle rambled into the garden and saw us there scowling at our work. He stopped and asked, "Do you boys know why you're pulling those weeds? It's because they are
robbers, stealing food from the vegetables. Now the next thing: do you know how to get this job done quickly and have plenty of time left to play? Divide the garden into six little plots and each of you worry about three of them. you'll always have your Saturday's free."
    The boys followed his advice and had every Saturday free, and were very proud of the neat-looking garden.
    That uncle taught those boys three lessons about how to handle a hard job:
     First, be sure you know why you're doing the job.
     Second, think ahead at the job completed.
     Third, break down the job into smaller jobs and tackle only one at a time.