Example for building you are entrepreneur journey"The Parable of the Pipeline" | Episode #47

The Parable of
the Pipeline. The Parable of
the Pipeline
1801, valley in central Italy
ONCE UPON A TIME LONG, LONG AGO, two
ambitious young cousins named Pablo and Bruno
lived side by side in a small Italian village.
The young men were best buddies.
And big dreamers.
They would talk endlessly about how some day,
some way, they would become the richest men in
the village. They were both bright and hard
working. All they needed was an opportunity.
One day that opportunity arrived. The village
decided to hire two men to carry water from a
nearby river to a cistern in the town square. The job
went to Pablo and Bruno.
Each man grabbed two buckets and headed to the
river. By the end of the day, they had filled the
town cistern to the brim. The village elder paid
them one penny for each bucket of water.
“This is our dream come true!” shouted Bruno. “I
can’t believe our good fortune.”
But Pablo wasn’t so sure. His back ached and his hands were blistered from
carrying the heavy buckets. He dreaded getting up
and going to work the next morning. He vowed to
think of a better way of getting the water from the
river to the village.
Pablo, the Pipeline Man
“Bruno, I have a plan,” Pablo said the next morning
as they grabbed their buckets and headed for the
river. “Instead of lugging buckets back and forth
for pennies a day, let’s build a pipeline from the
river to the village.”
Bruno stopped dead in his tracks.
“A pipeline! Whoever heard of such a thing?”
Bruno shouted. “We’ve got a great job, Pablo. I
can carry 100 buckets a day. At a penny a bucket,
that’s a dollar a day! I’m rich! By the end of the
week, I can buy a new pair of shoes. By the end of
the month, a cow. By the end of six months, I can
build a new hut. We have the best job in town. We
have weekends off and two weeks’ paid vacation
every year. We’re set for life! Get out of here with
your pipeline.”
But Pablo was not easily discouraged. He patiently
explained the pipeline plan to his best friend. Pablo
would work part of the day carrying buckets and
then part of the day and weekends building his
pipeline. He knew it would be hard work digging a
ditch in the rocky soil. Because he was paid by the
bucket, he knew his income would drop at first. He
also knew it would take a year, possibly two, before his pipeline would start to pay big dividends. But
Pablo believed in his dream, and he went to work.
Pipeline in Progress
Bruno and the rest of the villagers began mocking
Pablo, calling him “Pablo the Pipeline Man.”
Bruno, who was earning almost twice as much
money as Pablo, flaunted his new purchases. He
bought a donkey outfitted with a new leather saddle,
which he kept parked outside his new two-story hut.
He bought flashy clothes and fancy meals at the inn.
The villagers called him Mr. Bruno, and they
cheered when he bought rounds at the tavern and
laughed loudly at his jokes.
Small Actions Equal Big Results
While Bruno lay in his hammock on evenings and
weekends, Pablo kept digging his pipeline. The
first few months Pablo didn’t have much to show
for his efforts. The work was hard – even harder
than Bruno’s because Pablo was working evenings
and weekends, too.
But Pablo kept reminding himself that tomorrow’s
dreams are built on today’s sacrifices. Day by day
he dug, an inch at a time.
“Inch by inch it’s a cinch,” he chanted to himself as
he swung his pickax into the rocky soil. Inches
turned into one foot…then 10 feet…then 20…
100….
“Short-term pain equals long-term gain,” he
reminded himself as he stumbled into his humble
hut exhausted from another day’s work. He measured his success by setting and meeting his
daily goals, knowing that, over time, the results
would far exceed his efforts.
“Keep your eyes on the prize,” he repeated over and
over as he drifted off to sleep accompanied by the
sounds of laughter from the village tavern.
“Keep your eyes on the prize….”
Completed pipeline
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