1.

Everyone Has a Story in Life

A 24 year old boy seeing out from the trains window shouted

Dad, look the trees are going behind!

Dad smiled and a young couple sitting nearby, looked at the 24 year olds childish
behavior with pity, suddenly he again exclaimed

Dad, look the clouds are running with us!

The couple couldnt resist and said to the old man

Why dont you take your son to a good doctor? The old man smiled and saidI did
and we are just coming from the hospital, my son was blind from birth, he just got his
eyes today.

Every single person on the planet has a story. Dont judge people before you truly know
them. The truth might surprise you.
2. Shake off Your Problems

A mans favorite donkey falls into a deep precipice. He cant pull it out no matter how
hard he tries. He therefore decides to bury it alive.

Soil is poured onto the donkey from above. The donkey feels the load, shakes it off, and
steps on it. More soil is poured.

It shakes it off and steps up. The more the load was poured, the higher it rose. By noon,
the donkey was grazing in green pastures.

After much shaking off (of problems) And stepping up (learning from them), One will
graze in GREEN PASTURES.
3. The Elephant Rope

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that
these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No
chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from
their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no
attempt to get away. Well, trainer said, when they are very young and much smaller
we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, its enough to hold them. As
they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the
rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.

The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but
because they believed they couldnt, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot
do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.

1. Colonel Sanders | Kentucky Fried Chicken

Once, there was an older man, who was broke, living in a tiny house and owned a beat
up car. He was living off of $99 social security checks. At 65 years of age, he decide
things had to change. So he thought about what he had to offer. His friends raved about
his chicken recipe. He decided that this was his best shot at making a change.

He left Kentucky and traveled to different states to try to sell his recipe. He told
restaurant owners that he had a mouthwatering chicken recipe. He offered the recipe to
them for free, just asking for a small percentage on the items sold. Sounds like a good
deal, right?

Unfortunately, not to most of the restaurants. He heard NO over 1000 times. Even after
all of those rejections, he didnt give up. He believed his chicken recipe was something
special. He got rejected 1009 times before he heard his first yes.

With that one success Colonel Hartland Sanders changed the way Americans eat
chicken. Kentucky Fried Chicken, popularly known as KFC, was born.

Remember, never give up and always believe in yourself in spite of rejection.

2. The Obstacle in our Path

There once was a very wealthy and curious king. This king had a huge boulder placed
in the middle of a road. Then he hid nearby to see if anyone would try to remove the
gigantic rock from the road.

The first people to pass by were some of the kings wealthiest merchants and courtiers.
Rather than moving it, they simply walked around it. A few loudly blamed the King for
not maintaining the roads. Not one of them tried to move the boulder.

Finally, a peasant came along. His arms were full of vegetables. When he got near the
boulder, rather than simply walking around it as the others had, the peasant put down
his load and tried to move the stone to the side of the road. It took a lot of effort but he
finally succeeded.

The peasant gathered up his load and was ready to go on his way when he say a purse
lying in the road where the boulder had been. The peasant opened the purse. The
purse was stuffed full of gold coins and a note from the king. The kings note said the
purses gold was a reward for moving the boulder from the road.

The king showed the peasant what many of us never understand: every obstacle
presents an opportunity to improve our condition.
3. Value

A popular speaker started off a seminar by holding up a $20 bill. A crowd of 200 had
gathered to hear him speak. He asked, Who would like this $20 bill?

200 hands went up.

He said, I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this. He crumpled
the bill up.

He then asked, Who still wants it?

All 200 hands were still raised.

Well, he replied, What if I do this? Then he dropped the bill on the ground and
stomped on it with his shoes.

He picked it up, and showed it to the crowd. The bill was all crumpled and dirty.

Now who still wants it?

All the hands still went up.

My friends, I have just showed you a very important lesson. No matter what I did to the
money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, life crumples us and grinds us into the dirt. We make bad
decisions or deal with poor circumstances. We feel worthless. But no matter what has
happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value. You are special Dont
ever forget it!
4. A Very Special Bank Account

Imagine you had a bank account that deposited $86,400 each morning. The account
carries over no balance from day to day, allows you to keep no cash balance, and every
evening cancels whatever part of the amount you had failed to use during the day. What
would you do? Draw out every dollar each day!

We all have such a bank. Its name is Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400
seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever time you have failed to use wisely. It
carries over no balance from day to day. It allows no overdraft so you cant borrow
against yourself or use more time than you have. Each day, the account starts fresh.
Each night, it destroys an unused time. If you fail to use the days deposits, its your loss
and you cant appeal to get it back.

There is never any borrowing time. You cant take a loan out on your time or against
someone elses. The time you have is the time you have and that is that. Time
management is yours to decide how you spend the time, just as with money you decide
how you spend the money. It is never the case of us not having enough time to do
things, but the case of whether we want to do them and where they fall in our priorities.