My wife and I recently went on a camping trip to one of our favorite camp grounds. We love to relax and enjoy the beauty of nature and watch the birds and squirrels and such.
After arriving and setting everything up we were sitting around outside when a humming bird approached one of our wind chimes hanging from our travel trailer canopy. He continued to come back and snoop around the chime as if he were looking for food.
We always bring a few humming bird feeders with us, but this time when had taken them out to use around our back yard and had forgotten to put them back in the camper.
So I decided to improvise. I took a red (because it is widely believed that humming birds are attracted by the color red) 16 ounce Solo brand cup and punched two holes, opposite each other, just under the top edge, and ran a piece of wire through to make a loop to hang the cup. We then filled it with humming bird nectar, until it was literally running over the top and down the sides of the cup, hung it up and waited.
Within five minutes we had our first humming bird coming to check it out. He hovered curiously around the cup near the bottom looking for a place to stick his beak to get the nectar out. In case you aren't familiar with humming bird feeders, they have little drinking portals around the bottom so the birds can insert their beaks to drink and gravity keeps it working correctly. Well, needless to say, our red Solo cup had no such portals. So the bird was quite confused to say the least.
He returned to the cup time after time doing the same thing over and over. All the humming bird had to do was hover a few inches higher and he would have discovered that at the top of the cup was a sea of nectar just waiting for him to devour.
It dawned on me that the humming bird, much like we have, had been trained or conditioned to look at the situation through a particular viewpoint and really didn't understand how to approach the situation any other way.
What does all this, you ask, have to do with our success as human beings?
Have you trained yourself, like the humming bird, to look at situations the same old way, over and over, never really taking time to step back and realize your true potential in any given circumstance? Quite often we need to step back and refocus our efforts in order to see that success can be lying right in front of us.
Albert Einstein defines insanity as; doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. This is not to say that humming birds are insane, quite the contrary, I would venture to say that some of us humans come closer to that definition.
Learn to open your eyes to a much broader concept and teach yourself to always look for a different prospective or viewpoint to each opportunity that presents itself. Then you will be ready to experience success in whatever it is you decide to tackle.
Selasa, 17 Februari 2009
Have an Eye on Your Country
We live in a country and this country is like our own home. What ever is happening in our country that items shall effect us and we cannot avoid that happening having impact on our life. Therefore, we must read news papers and have a look on TV to note what is happening in our country.
As far as India is concerned, we know that most of the people are illiterate, most of the people are not having training in an occupation and that is the reason most of the people are not having a job. The people are poor and most of the people are not having living accommodation. We note that most of the people are not in a position to send their wards to schools even and most of the people are not in a position to have proper treatment when they fall ill. We know that most of the people are found functioning like beggars and most of the people are wearing rags. The children are not going to school, but most of them are deployed to beg or to collect valuables from the garbage. All this is not good, but such conditions are available in our country.
We must note that we too can be one of these people and therefore, we must work for ourselves and if we can get time, we should help these people in our own way. The people of India had been depending upon the state3 and upon God and that is the reasons most of the people are busy in conducting prayers before God and for that purpose, we have seen that we are having religious places and religious books on higher side. We have seen that people who are establishing deras, matths and asharams are making a lot of money and they are enjoying life like kings and lords. We are noticing that some bad news are coming out of these religious institutions because money corrupts the man holding money and since these institutions are collecting much money the owners are indulging in sins, crimes and misconducts.
Therefore, we must open our eyes and have an eye on all these problems in India and we must teach the people that we shall have to write off all these problems and we shall have to work. The state and God shall not help us, but we shall have to solve all these problems. We may seek help from God as well as help from the state, but we shall have to work on these projects. Therefore, we the people of India must start working on these projects and one day we shall be solving all these problems.
As far as India is concerned, we know that most of the people are illiterate, most of the people are not having training in an occupation and that is the reason most of the people are not having a job. The people are poor and most of the people are not having living accommodation. We note that most of the people are not in a position to send their wards to schools even and most of the people are not in a position to have proper treatment when they fall ill. We know that most of the people are found functioning like beggars and most of the people are wearing rags. The children are not going to school, but most of them are deployed to beg or to collect valuables from the garbage. All this is not good, but such conditions are available in our country.
We must note that we too can be one of these people and therefore, we must work for ourselves and if we can get time, we should help these people in our own way. The people of India had been depending upon the state3 and upon God and that is the reasons most of the people are busy in conducting prayers before God and for that purpose, we have seen that we are having religious places and religious books on higher side. We have seen that people who are establishing deras, matths and asharams are making a lot of money and they are enjoying life like kings and lords. We are noticing that some bad news are coming out of these religious institutions because money corrupts the man holding money and since these institutions are collecting much money the owners are indulging in sins, crimes and misconducts.
Therefore, we must open our eyes and have an eye on all these problems in India and we must teach the people that we shall have to write off all these problems and we shall have to work. The state and God shall not help us, but we shall have to solve all these problems. We may seek help from God as well as help from the state, but we shall have to work on these projects. Therefore, we the people of India must start working on these projects and one day we shall be solving all these problems.
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