tell any stories about cutting down trees
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The Wood Cutter StoriesImage by: Tekniska Museet
Contents
The Wood-Cutter
The Wood-Choppers Contest
Sharpen Your Axe – An Inspirational Story
Have You Sharpened Your Axe?
Abraham Lincoln is regarded as one of the most important presidents in American history. He was well known for his energy and productivity. Abe Lincoln's productivity secret was to use sharper tools to get the job done more efficiently.
He said: “Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.”
Lincoln, who was a skilled woodcutter before becoming president, probably meant this both literally and figuratively. Inefficient tools waste energy. It's better to spend the majority of your time finding and cultivating the best tools for any task.
Sharpening your axe can include things like setting up email filters, installing productivity software, and developing more efficient systems and processes. But (and most of us forget this), the most important ‘tool’ for achieving any task is YOU – your ability to use your mind and body to its full potential. Sadly it is also the one that we most often take for granted. We expect our bodies and minds to just keep on going and going even though we don’t look after the
The Wood-Cutter
Once upon a time there was a very strong wood-cutter. He asked for a job from a timber merchant and he got it. The pay was very good and so were the work conditions and for that reason the wood-cutter was determined to do his very best. His boss gave him an axe and showed him the area in the forest where he was to work.
The first day the wood-cutter cut down 18 trees. His boss was extremely impressed and said, “Well done. Keep it up. You are our best wood-cutter yet.” Motivated by his boss’s words, the wood-cutter tried even harder the next day, but he only cut down 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder but only cut down 10 trees.
Day after day the woodcutter cut down fewer and fewer trees. His boss came to him and told him that if he did not chop down more trees each day he would lose his job. The wood-cutter needed the job, so he tried harder and harder. He worked during his lunch breaks and tea breaks, but still he could not cut down enough trees. “I must be losing my strength” the wood-cutter thought to himself. He worked over-time, but still it was not enough.
Eventually his boss came to him and told him he was fired. The wood-cutter was really upset, but he knew that he had worked as hard as he could and just did not have enough time to chop more trees. He sadly handed his axe back.
The boss took one look at the axe and asked, “When was the last time you sharpened your axe?”
“Sharpen my axe?” the wood-cutter replied. “I have never sharpened my axe. I have been too busy trying to cut down enough trees.”
Moral of the story:
Don’t get so busy that you don’t take time to sharpen your axe.
Explanation:
Cutting Down Trees :
People are cutting down thousands of acres of forest just to make every day utilities such as toilet paper and the paper I am writing on. I believe there is a way to make this happen but we need to cut down the trees safely and responsibly, so that we don’t hurt the animals living there. I strongly believe that for every tree you cut down you should plant two more. . I chose two because it is likely that one will die so plant two.
First we want to make our world beautiful for the next generation. It’s not their responsibility to fix all the wrong we have done, like deforestation for lots of reasons including Palm Oil plantations and paper. Planting two trees after you cut down one is helping the environment and creating new habitats for animals that have lost theirs because you cut them down.
Secondly, if there were no trees, plants, or seeds, the world would slowly die and we would perish. Trees and plants give us clean air and new oxygen to breath, so if we cut them down and don’t replace them we are pretty much cutting down our oxygen supply and it isn’t good for us or for the environment. They think they are so smart by inventing paper but really we could be all typing on recycled computers instead of wasting animal’s habitats and cutting down our fresh oxygen.
Finally, trees and plants are the homes of many animals and insects and it is unfair if we take their homes away. They have done nothing to us while we cut down their homes, sometimes killing them in the process. I think this is completely unfair; they should have the same rights as us. Put your selves in their shoes, how would you feel.
That is why I feel so passionate about deforestation. It is unfair to the animals, wasting our fresh oxygen and cutting down a species of family that created us. So I strongly believe that cutting down trees should be safe for all the animals that live in them and also after you cut them down, you should plant two new ones.