ENCOURAGE EVERYONE

 ENCOURAGE EVERYONE

“TO STRUGGLE IN HIS LIFE”

A business executive was deep in debt and could see no way out. Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

 

Suddenly an old man appeared before him. "I can see that something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said, "I believe I can help you." He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into his hand saying, "Take this money. Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time." Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

 

The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!

 

"I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized. Nonetheless, the executive decided to put the check in his safe first. Just knowing it was there, would give him the strength to work out away to save his business, he thought. 

 

With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and got extended terms of payment from creditors. Soon he could close some big sales. Within a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again.

Exactly a year later, he returned to the park with that uncashed check. The old man did not appear for some time yet the business executive decided to wait for a while more. 

A while later, the old man came along the way but seemed to be unaware of the business executive. He stopped the old man and was about the hand over the cheque with a few words of thanks as well as share his success story.

 

At the same time, he saw a nurse come running up and grabbing the old man. "I'm so glad I caught him!" she cried. "I hope he hasn't been bothering you. He's always escaping from the rest home and telling people he's John D. Rockefeller." And she led the old man away by the arm.

 

The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn't the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his new found self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. 

LEARNING 1

He understood that Confidence is nothing but the distant vision held positively no matter what comes in between.  

LEARNING 2

This Confidence comes from one's 

own commitment and dedication and entirely internal.

 

MORAL for the Readers

"Our duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth"   

RESPOND or REACT

 Are We Learning To Respond 

or Are we Learning To  React?

 

One of the very important aspects of our LIFE DEVELOPMENT is.. 

Are we Learning to Respond or

Learning to React towards any untoward situation?

 

On this VERY MUCH NEEDED LIFE LEARNING

 

Let me share this learning with a beautiful Cockroach Story…..

 

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. 

She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach.

Lady’s reaction was so contagious,

that everyone in her group also got panicky.
Finally the lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but ...cockroach landed on another lady in the group.

Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

The waiter rushed forward to their rescue. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter.

The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his fingers and threw it out of the restaurant.

Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering,

 

Was it the cockroach responsible

for their exaggerated behavior?

 

If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed?
He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos.

It is not the cockroach, but the inability of the ladies to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach that disturbed the ladies.

LEARNING 1 

    

Now I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it's my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me. 

 

It's not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.

 

More than the problem, 

it's my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

LEARNING 2

I have now understood that in LIFE,

 

I SHOULD NOT REACT IN LIFE.
I SHOULD ALWAYS RESPOND.

The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

Reactions are always instinctive

Whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to save a situation from going out of hands…

….To avoid cracks in relationship,

….To avoid taking decisions in anger, anxiety, stress or hurry.