Your Bi-Weekly Power Thought

[V. Verma]

YOUR Bi-Weekly MOTIVATION

 

Tuesday May 3, 2016

 

 

Rise & Shine !

 

Long time ago in a faraway land, there lived a Chinese wise man & his disciple. During one of their travels, they saw a small house in extremely poor appearance. Since they were hungry and thirsty, they stopped at the house and were well received by the owner, his wife, 3 children and a thin, old and very tired cow.

At one point, the wise man asked: “You live far away from other towns. How do you survive?”

 

“You see that cow? That keeps us going” said the head of the family. “She gives us milk, some of it we drink and the rest we make into cheese. When there is extra, we go to town and exchange for other types of food”.

 

The wise man thanked the family and left. After he reached the first bend on the road, he stopped and asked his disciple to go back, get the cow and push her off the cliff. The disciple couldn’t believe what he was hearing but did as he was told. The Chinese wise man said a prayer and moved on their journey. As the years passed by, remorse for what he had done never left the disciple. After several years when the guilt became too much to bear, he returned to find out what happened to the family, to apologize and somehow make amends.

 

To his amazement, he saw that the poor shack was replaced with a beautiful house with trees all around it. The heart of the disciple froze and wondered what happened to the original owner. Did they starve to death or were forced to sell their land and leave.  3 teenagers and their parents welcomed him to their house. He asked them whereabouts the family who lived there many years ago. “You are looking at it” said the man. The student was dumbfounded and asked: “You didn’t have anything few years ago. How did you change it?”

 

The man replied with a smile: “We had a cow that kept us alive. She was all we had but one day she fell down the cliff and died. To survive, we had start doing other things, develop skills we didn’t know we had. By hard work and finding better ways to of doing things, we are now much better off than before.

 

Sometimes our dependency on something small and limited is the biggest obstacle to our growth. Perhaps the best thing that could happen to you is to push your “cow” down the cliff! Once you free yourself of the thought “it’s little but it’s certain”….then your life will really change.

 

Is there a cow (a person, idea, mental block or mindset) in your life that is keeping you from moving forward?

 

Throw it off the Cliff……

 

 

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity…….. Mitt Romney