So today I was chatting with a good friend and business partner of mine (@Farzad_Taghavi) and he shared a great story with me, what I am about to share with you guys. Here is the story:

One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport.

We were driving in the right lane when suddenly a black car
jumped out of a parking space right in front of us.

My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, skidded, and missed the other car
by just inches!

The driver of the other car whipped his head around
and started yelling at us.

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy.

And I mean, he was really friendly.

So I asked, ‘Why did you just do that?

This guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the hospital!’

This is when my taxi driver taught me what I now call,
‘The Law of the Garbage Truck.’

He explained that many people are like garbage trucks.

They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger,
and full of disappointment.

As their garbage piles up, they need a place to dump it
and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.

Don’t take it personally.

Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on.

Don’t take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home,
or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks
take over their day.

Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with regrets, so …

Love the people who treat you right.

Pray for the ones who don’t.

Life is ten percent what you make it
and ninety percent how you take it!

I am in a learning curve, feeling empowered everyday and applying this same law to my daily life. Sometimes I have my ups and sometimes my downs, but in the days I have my downs I think and visualize my days when I have my ups and it all feels better.

Hope that you learned something from this.

Wish you the best,
Yannick van den Bos