Let me share a story that happened to me not long ago. I recently hired a cleaning lady to help out at my office in London. Shes a lovely, hard-working womanalways turns up before everyone else and manages to get the place spotless in under an hour. Everythings sparkling by the time the first employee walks in.
One day, she came by my office to pick up her wages. She was dressed beautifully and her hair looked fantasticI almost didnt recognise her! As she walked in, she asked me:
Is it true your employees get a discount at the car wash nearby?
I was taken aback. I wasnt really sure why she wanted the discount, but I confirmed it, and told her she could have it too. I even said she could bring her family along and theyd get the discount as well, since she was one of us now.
You shouldve seen my face when she turned up later, not just on her own but with her husband and daughter, all arriving in very fancy carsa gleaming Mercedes and the others no less impressive. I couldnt quite believe it; I hadnt imagined she could afford such luxury.
Well, since I was terribly curious about how she managed to buy such an expensive car, I did some digging and found out she cleans not just my office, but twenty others just like it every day. It turns out shes earning an absolute fortune each month! Can you believe it?
Now Im seriously thinking maybe I should ask her for some tips on how to run a businessFrom then on, I couldnt help but greet her with a new respect each time she arrivedalways early, always cheerful, always impeccable. Shed just smile knowingly, her keys jingling in her hand as she hurried off to her next appointment. That day, I learned success doesnt always look the way you expect, and sometimes the people quietly sweeping the floors have the brightest stories to tellif only you care enough to notice.
