Excerpts from "Like the flowing river" by Paulo Coelho.(One of my favourites)

An acquaintance of mine ended up in serious financial difficulty because he could never manage to bring together dream and reality. Worse, he dragged others down with him, harming people he had no wish to harm.
Unable to repay the debts he had accumulated, he even considered suicide. Then one afternoon, as he was walking down a street, he saw a house in ruins. "That building is me," he thought, and at that precise moment, he felt an immense desire to rebuild that house.
He found out who the owner was and offered to carry out the necessary work; the owner agreed, although he couldn't understand what my friend stood to gain. Together they managed to get hold of roof tiles, wood and cement. My friend put his whole heart into the work, though without knowing why or for whom. But as the renovation work progressed, he felt his personal life improving.
By the end of the year, the house was ready. And all his personal problems had been resolved.