In some ways it was a typical breakfast meeting. The waitress
was pleasant, the eggs were average, and the restaurant was full
of busy people. We shared a cup of black, coffee-like substance,
and the first few times my client took a sip he managed to spill
quite a bit of it. His trembling hand was just one of the symptoms
of his burnout. That’s why we were meeting. He wanted to know if I
could help him.

I picked up a fork and explained that as long as I used it for eating,
the fork would last indefinitely. However, if I began to use it to
drive nails or dig trenches, it would soon break. The key was to use
it for what it was designed to do.

The look in his eyes told me he got it, but I still went on to say that
people are like the fork. When they do what they are not designed to do,
they eventually break.

...think about it...