Do Your Best Until The Very End

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做人善始善终，方能把握机遇；做人善始善终，方能得到他人认同；做人善始善终，方能领悟生命真谛——人生因善始善终而精彩。

If you had a chance to build a house for yourself， how would you design it？

Once， there was a carpenter （木匠） who was good at building houses. He had no other skills and his boss was very nice， so he worked for his boss one year after another. After 10 years of working for the same company， he finally got fed up with it and decided to quit （辞职）. He wanted to try something new.

However， after hearing this， his boss asked him to help with one final job before he left the team. He asked him to build one final house. Although the carpenter didn’t want to do this kind of work anymore， he still agreed. He built the house， but his heart wasn’t in it. He used cheap materials （材料） and rushed to finish the job quickly. It turned out to be the worst house that he had ever built.

When he finished， his boss came to see him one last time. Seeing the house， he said nothing. He paid the worker for building the house. He then said， “I wanted to do something special for you to say thanks for your 10 years of hard work. You know， you have built so many beautiful and grand （宏伟的） houses for other people these years but not one for yourself ... so I’m giving you this house as a gift.”

Surprised， the carpenter was speechless（无语的）. What a shame！ He had never thought his boss would give him such a big gift. If he knew he was building his own house， he would have done it much differently. He regretted （后悔） building his final house so poorly.

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如果你有机会为自己建造一座房子，你会怎么设计？

从前，有个擅长建造房子的木匠。（剩余1075字）