NEED and GREED

This one makes so much sense…

A boat docked in a tiny Mexican fishing village.

A tourist complimented the local fishermen
on the quality of their fish and asked
how long it took him to catch them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Not very long.” they answered in unison.

“Why didn’t you stay out longer and catch more?”

The fishermen explained that their small catches were
sufficient to meet their needs and those of their families.

“But what do you do with the rest of your time?”

“We sleep late, fish a little, play with our children,
and take siestas with our wives.
In the evenings, we go into the village to see our friends, have a few drinks, play the guitar, and sing a few songs.

 

 

 

 

 

We have a full life.”

The tourist interrupted,

“I have an MBA from Harvard and I can help you!
You should start by fishing longer every day.
You can then sell the extra fish you catch.
With the extra revenue, you can buy a bigger boat.”

“And after that?”

“With the extra money the larger boat will bring,
you can buy a second one and a third one
and so on until you have an entire fleet of trawlers.
Instead of selling your fish to a middle man,
you can then negotiate directly with the processing plants
and maybe even open your own plant.

You can then leave this little village and move to   Mexico City , Los Angeles , or even   New York City !

 

 

 

 

 

From there you can direct your huge new enterprise.”

“How long would that take?”

“Twenty, perhaps twenty-five years.” replied the tourist.

“And after that?”

“Afterwards? Well my friend, that’s when it gets really interesting, ” answered the tourist, laughing. “When your business gets really big, you can start buying and selling stocks and make millions!”

“Millions? Really? And after that?” asked the fishermen.

 

 

 

 

 

“After that you’ll be able to retire,
live in a tiny village near the coast,
sleep late, play with your children,
catch a few fish, take a siesta with your wife
and spend your evenings drinking and enjoying your friends.”

“With all due respect sir, but that’s exactly what we are doing now. So what’s the point wasting twenty-five years?” asked the Mexicans.

And the moral of this story is:

 

 

 

 

Know where you’re going in life….
you may already be there

 

10 Steps to Self Confidence

It really works if we believe in these…

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A good message from Ratan Tata

Some Beautiful Lessons

Take some time out and read these beautiful words .

Later, reflect on what you have just read.

Surely you will understand a lot of things…

First Lesson

…after some months at the the engineering  college, the professor gave us a GK test.

Being a good student, I quickly answered all the questions… all, but the last: “What is the name of the sweeper of our institute?

I handed over my test paper, leaving the last question unanswered. Just before the lesson ended, another student inquired if the last question would be marked.

“Certainly!”, the professor replied. “You will meet many people in your life. All of them will have some degree of importance.

They will deserve your attention, even if it is a simple smile or a simple hello”.
I never forgot this lesson… and went on to learn that the name of our sweeper was Raghu.

 

Second Lesson

On the momentous   July 26, 2005 rainy day in Mumbai, a frail man was standing on the roadside, in knee deep water.
His car had broken down and he desperately needed help.
Wet to his core, he signaled to the passers by.

A young man, stopped to help him out.

He pushed his car to a safe place, called a mechanic and hailed an auto for him. The frail old man seemed too much in a hurry, but did not forget to thank him and take down his address on a piece of paper.

Seven days had already passed when someone knocked at the door of that young man.

To his enormous surprise, it was a courier with a huge packet to deliver – an I-Mac computer & Philips Music System with a note: “Many thanks for helping me on the road that night….

The rain had completely drenched me and my soul, when you appeared.

Thanks to you, I was able to reach my dying wife just in time.

God bless you for having helped me.

Sincerely,

Dr. PK Singhania”

 

Third Lesson

Sometime ago, when the ice-creams were not so expensive, a ten-year old boy went to Nirula’s ice-cream shop. While sitting at the table, he asked the waiter, “How much does a Sundae cost?” “Rs.40,”he replied.

The boy took out his money from the pocket and began counting it.

“Well, how much does a simple ice-cream cost?”.

There were other people waiting to be served, so the waiter began to get a little impatient.

“Rs 30!” he replied abruptly. The boy counted his money again and said: “Please get me a simple ice-cream!”

The waiter served him the ice-cream and his bill. The boy ate his ice-cream, paid his bill at the cash counter and left.

When the waiter went to clean the table he began to cry… for, there, in the corner of the plate, were Rs 10 … his tips.

The boy took a simple ice-cream instead of a Sundae so he could leave a tips for him.

If you have never experienced the danger of war or the solitude of imprisonment, the agony of torture and hunger, you are much ahead of the 500 million people who live in this world.

If you can go to your place of worship without being threatened, arrested, tortured or killed, you are luckier than the 3000,000,000 persons of this world.

If you have money in your bank account and your wallet and some loose change in some little box, you are one of the world’s 8% well-to-do population.

If you are able to read this message, you have just received a double blessing…

one, someone is thinking about you…

two, you are not one of those 2000,000,000 people who are illiterate!

Somebody said at some time:

Work as if you have no need of the money.
Love as if nobody ever made you suffer.
Dance as if nobody is watching you.
Sing as if nobody is hearing you.
Live as if the Paradise were on this Earth.

Try to Live Life…

Once there was a famous Artist. He created a very pretty picture and displayed it on the square of the city and wrote a note under the picture, anybody seems any correction please mark it.

When he saw the picture in the evening, it was ruined by the marks on the whole picture. It was very sad to see the picture. He was not able to understand anything, he was sitting sad.

One of his friend was passing by there, saw him and asked about his sadness, the artist told him the whole event. His friend told him, do one thing create another picture and put it over here and write a note, wherever anybody found any mistake or need any correction please make it correct.

Now in the evening artist found that no one has done nothing on the picture and it was found as it was in the morning. Now he understood peoples behavior in the world.
Reprove, found the errors in others, preach down is easy but it is extremely difficult to overcome those shortcomings. This is life…

When the world says I
‘Give it up’
Hope says softly in the ear.,,,,
‘Try Again’
And rightly so ..,,,
“Life is like an ice cream, it is melting while you taste and Melting too while you waste it .,,,

So learn to test life;
The Waste has done so.,,,

“Try to Live Life…”

EAGLES IN A STORM

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did you know that an eagle knows when a storm is approaching long before it breaks?

The eagle will fly to some high spot and wait for the winds to come. When the storm hits, it sets its wings so that the wind will pick it up and lift it above the storm.

While the storm rages below, the eagle is soaring above it.

The eagle does not escape the storm. It simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It rises on the winds that bring the storm.

When the storms of life come upon us – and all of us will experience them – we can rise above them by setting our minds and our belief towards Higher Power. The storms do not have to overcome us. We can allow God’s power to lift us above them.

Remember, it is not the burdens of life that weigh us down, it is how we handle them.

Life is an Echo

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FOCUS ON THAT WHICH YOU DESIRE, NOT WHAT YOU FEAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOCUS ON THAT WHICH YOU DESIRE, NOT WHAT YOU FEAR.

 

Let make your thoughts fly

“Dare to be independent,
dare to reach out so far as your thoughts can fly
and dare to reflect your thought with your  action in the life.”

Swami Vivekananda.

My Thoughts

Some of my thoughts:
If you want change in society, be the same your self first.
If you want to be honored, give it to the other first.
Treat People in the way, that you want for yourself.
Always help the person in need.
Less expectation less pain.