BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A SOLUTION

 Finding THE COMMON GROUND

before COMING TO ANY SOLUTION 

IS THE ONLY WAY to Solve any Problem

 

 

A father left 17 camels, as the inheritance for his three sons.

When the father passed away, his sons opened up the

will.

The Will stated that THE ELDEST SON SHOULD GET

HALF of 17 camels while

 

THE MIDDLE SON SHOULD BE GIVEN

1/3RD (ONE-THIRD)

 

&

THE YOUNGEST SON SHOULD BE GIVEN

1/9TH (ONE-NINTH) of the 17 camels.

 

As it is not possible to divide 17 into half or 17 by 3 or 17 by 9,

the three sons started to quarrel with each other.

So, the three sons decided to go to a wise woman.

 

The wise woman listened patiently about the Will.

 

The wise young woman, after giving some thought, brought one camel of her own and added the same to 17. That increased the total to 18 camels.

 

Now, she started reading the deceased father’s will.

Half of 18 = 9.

 

So she gave the eldest son 9 camels

 

1/3rd of 18 = 6.

So she gave the middle son 6 camels

 

1/9th of 18 = 2.

So she gave the youngest son 2 camels.

 

Now add this up: 9 plus 6 plus 2 is 17,

and this left one camel, which the wise woman took away.

 

LEARNING 1

The attitude of negotiation and problem solving is :

To find the 18th camel, i.e. the COMMON GROUND.

 

Once a person is able to find the 18th camel,

that is the COMMON GROUND...

...ANY ISSUE GETS RESOLVED.

 

It is difficult at times to find the COMMON GROUND.

But the spirit is this only

 

LEARNING 2

 

To reach any solution of any problem….

 

First step is to believe

that there is a solution.

 

 

Otherwise there won’t be any!

EVERY ROSE HAS A THORN

 Nobody is PERFECT in this World

 

A man and his girlfriend got married in a large celebration. 

All of their friends and family came to see the lovely ceremony. 

The bride was gorgeous in her white wedding gown and the groom was very dashing in his black suit.

Everyone could tell that the love they had for each other was true.

 

A few months later, the wife comes to the husband with a proposal: 

"I read in a magazine, a while ago, about

“How can we strengthen our marriage" she offered.

 

Each of us will write a list of the things that we find a bit annoying with the other person. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives happier together."

 The husband agreed, so each of them went to a separate room in the house and thought of the things that annoyed them about the other. They thought about this question for the rest of the day and wrote down what they came up with.

 The next morning, at the breakfast table, they decided that they would go over their lists. "I'll start," offered the wife. She took out her list. 

It had many items on it enough to fill 3 pages, in fact. As she started reading the list of the little annoyances, she noticed that tears were starting to appear in her husband’s eyes. "What's wrong?"She asked.

 

"Nothing" the husband replied, "keep reading your lists." 

The wife continued to read until she had read all three pages to her husband. She neatly placed her list on the table and folded her hands over top of it.

 

 "Now, you read your list and then we'll talk about the things on both of our lists." She said happily.

 Quietly the husband stated,

"I don't have anything on my list. I think that you are perfect the way that you are. I don't want you to change anything for me. You are lovely and wonderful and I wouldn't want to try and change anything about you."

The wife, touched by his honesty and the depth of his love for her and his acceptance of her, turned her head and wept.

LEARNING 1

In life, there are enough times when we are disappointed, depressed and annoyed. We don't really have to go looking for them. We have a wonderful world that is full of beauty, light and promise. 

 

Why waste time in this world looking for the bad, disappointing or annoying when we can look around us, and see the amazing things before us?

 

LEARNING 2

 

WE ARE HAPPIER WHEN WE SEE & PRAISE

THE GOOD AND TRY OUR BEST TO FORGET THE BAD.

 

LEARNING 3

Always Remember:

 

Nobody's PERFECT but we can find PERFECTNESS in every one if we change the way we see them.