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contains a short story that can motivate the reader. in order to better
understand how to respond to any incident that happens to us. and this is the
motivational stories. please enjoy this article ........
source of article : SHORT INSPIRATIONAL AND MOTIVATIONAL STORIES
Thinking "Out of the Box"
Many hundreds of years ago in a small Italian town, a
merchant had the misfortune of owing a large sum of money to the moneylender.
The moneylender, who was old and ugly, fancied the merchant's beautiful
daughter so he proposed a bargain. He said he would forgo the merchant's debt
if he could marry the daughter. Both the merchant and his daughter were
horrified by the proposal.
The moneylender told them that he would put a black pebble and a
white pebble into an empty bag. The girl would then have to pick one pebble
from the bag. If she picked the black pebble, she would become the
moneylender's wife and her father's debt would be forgiven. If she picked the
white pebble she need not marry him and her father's debt would still be
forgiven. But if she refused to pick a pebble, her father would be thrown into
jail.
They were standing on a pebble strewn path in the merchant's
garden. As they talked, the moneylender bent over to pick up two pebbles. As he
picked them up, the sharp-eyed girl noticed that he had picked up two black
pebbles and put them into the bag. He then asked the girl to pick her pebble
from the bag.
What would you have done if you were the girl? If you had to
advise her, what would you have told her? Careful analysis would produce three
possibilities:
1. The girl should refuse to take a pebble.
2. The girl should show that there were two black pebbles in the
bag and expose the moneylender as a cheat.
3. The girl should pick a black pebble and sacrifice herself in
order to save her father from his debt and imprisonment.
The above story is used with the hope that it will make us
appreciate the difference between lateral and logical thinking.
The girl put her hand into the moneybag and drew out a pebble.
Without looking at it, she fumbled and let it fall onto the pebble-strewn path
where it immediately became lost among all the other pebbles.
"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said. "But never
mind, if you look into the bag for the one that is left, you will be able to
tell which pebble I picked." Since the remaining pebble is black, it must
be assumed that she had picked the white one. And since the moneylender dared
not admit his dishonesty, the girl changed what seemed an impossible situation
into an advantageous one.
MORAL OF THE
STORY: Most complex problems do have a solution, sometimes we have to think
about them in a different way.
Frogs
A group of frogs was traveling
through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit.
All the other frogs gathered around
the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they
were as good as dead.
The two frogs ignored the comments
and tried to jump out of the pit with all of their might.
The other frogs kept telling them
to stop, that they were as good as dead.
Finally, one of the frogs took heed
to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died.
The other frog continued to jump as
hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain
and just die.
He jumped even harder and finally
made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear
us?"
The frog explained to them that he
was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time.
Author
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Lessons to be learnt:
1. There is
power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is
down can lift them up and help them make it through the day.
2. A
destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill him or
her.
Be careful
of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of
words.... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go
such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit
to continue in difficult times.
Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.
Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.
BANK ACCOUNT
Imagine there is a bank, which credits your account
each mornig with Rs 86,400, carries over no balance from day to day, allowy you
to keep no cash balance, and every evening cancels whatever part of the amount
you had failed to use during the day. Its name is Time. Every morning it
credits you with 86,400 second. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of
this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows
no overdraft. Each day it opens s new account for you. Each night it burns the
records of the day. If you fail to use the day’s deposits, the loss is yours.
There is no going back. There is no drawing
against the “tomorrow”.
Therefore, there is never not enough time or
too much time. Time management is decided by us alone and nobody else. It is
never the case of us not having enough time to do things, but the case of
whether we want to do it.
“ A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and
were helped by you will remember you when forget me-nots have withered. Carve your
name on hearts, not on marble.
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