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Story of an Old Carpenter

"Your life today is the result of your attitudes and choices in the past. Your life tomorrow will be the result."

This is a story of an elderly carpenter who had been working for a contractor for the past 53 years. He had built many beautiful houses but now as he was getting old, he wanted to retire and lead a leisurely life with his family. So, he goes to the contractor and tells him about his plan of retiring. The contractor feels sad at the prospect of losing a good worker but agrees to the plan because the carpenter had indeed become too fragile for the tough building work. But as a last request, he asks the old carpenter to construct just one last house.

The old man agrees and starts working but his heart was not in his work any more. He had lost the motivation towards work. So, he resorted to shoddy workmanship and constructed the house half-heartedly. After the house was built, the contractor came to visit his employee's last piece of work. After inspecting the house, he handed over the front door keys to the carpenter and said, "This is your new house. My gift to you." The carpenter was shocked and upset. Had he known that he was building his own house, he would have done a better job! Now, he would have to live in the house, which is not worth staying.

Think of yourself as the carpenter. You work hard every day but are you giving your best? We put our least to the work we don't like or do not have interest in. Later, we get shocked at the situation we have created for ourselves and try to figure out why we didn't do it differently.

Enjoy your tasks and carry on your responsibilities with pleasure and not with pain. "Life is a do-it-yourself project". Do your job enthusiastically and with devotion, a positive output and a pleasing life will certainly be on your way.

DEAREST PLEASE I NEED YOUR TRUST TO HELP ME

This is the mail which i got in my mailbox..

Hello Dearest One !!

How are you this moment,I hope this my mail will reach you in good condition of health,l am really happy for you, I will really like to have a good relationship with you, and I have a special reason why I decided to contact you because of the urgency of my situation here and I am Miss Vivian Samuel Kanyon Doe, 23years old girl from Liberia, the only daughter of Late President Samuel Kanyon Doe who was killed by Prince Johnson and his rebels groups after many innocent soul were killed,My father was killed by government of Prince Johnson, he accuse my father of coup attempt.

I am constrained to contact you because of the maltreatment I am receiving from my step mother, She planned to take away all my late father`s treasury and properties from me since the unexpected death of my beloved Father. Meanwhile I wanted to escape but she hide away my international passport and other valuable traveling documents, Luckily she did not discover where I kept my Father`s File which contains important documents.

So I decided to run to the refugee camp where I am presently seeking asylum under the United Nations High Commission for the Refugee here in Dakar, Republic of Senegal. I wish to contact you personally for a long term business relationship and investment assistance in your country, My father of blessed memory deposited the sum of US$4,123, 000.00 in Finance Firm with my name as the next of kin.

However, I shall forward you with the necessary information of the deposit on confirmation of your acceptance to assist me for the transfer and investment of the fund in your country. As you will help me in an investment, and I will like to complete my studies,as I was in my school, when the crisis started.

It is my intention to compensate you with 10% of the total money for your services and the balance shall be my investment capital, This is the reason why I decided to contact you. Please all communications should be through this email address only for confidential purposes.

As soon as I receive your positive response showing your interest I will put things into action immediately, In the light of the above, I shall appreciate an urgent message indicating your ability and willingness to handle this transaction sincerely.

I am staying at the female hostel, Awaiting your urgent and positive response. Please do keep this only to your self please I beg you not to disclose it till I come over , once the fund has been transferred.

I hope my explanation is very clear but if you need further clarification, then send in your questions.

Thanks as i hope to receive from you soon.
Yours Truly!
Miss Vivian Samuel Doe.

The Stock Market simply illustrated

The Stock Market simply illustrated...

Once upon a time in a village, a man appeared and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for Rs 10.

The villagers seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them.

The man bought thousands at Rs 10 and as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He further announced that he would now buy at Rs 20.

This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again. Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms.

The offer rate increased to Rs 25 and the supply of monkeys became so little that it was an effort to even see a monkey let alone catch it.

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at Rs50! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would now buy on behalf of him.

In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers. Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has collected. I will sell them to you at Rs 35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell it to him for Rs 50.

The villagers squeezed up with all their savings to buy the monkeys.

Then they never saw the man nor his assistant, only monkeys everywhere!!!!

This is Stock Market!

LESSONS OF THE SQUARE WATERMELON

This is the story ...

Japanese grocery stores had a problem. They are much smaller than shops in the USA and therefore don't have room to waste.
Watermelons, big and round, wasted a lot of space. Most people would simply tell the grocery stores that watermelons grow round and there is nothing that can be done about it. That is how most of people would normally respond.

But some Japanese farmers took a different approach.
If the supermarkets wanted a square watermelon, they asked themselves, 'How can we provide one?'

They found out that if you put the watermelon in a square box when they are growing, the watermelon will take on the shape of the box - and grow into a square fruit.

This made the grocery stores happy and had the added benefit that it was much easier and cost effective to ship the watermelons.
Consumers also loved them because they took less space in their
refrigerators which are much smaller than those in the US meaning that the growers could charge a premium price for them.

THERE IS AN IMPORTANT MANAGEMENT LESSON IN THIS INCIDENT FOR US ALL ...

What does this have do with anything in life or at your job ? There are a few lessons that you can take away from this story :

01 . Don't Assume :

The major problem was that most people had always seen round watermelons
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so they automatically assumed that square watermelons were impossible before even thinking about the question. Things that you have been doing a certain way your entire life have taken on the aura of the round watermelon and you likely don't even take the time to consider if there is another way to do it. Breaking yourself from assuming this way can greatly improve your
overall life as you are constantly looking for new and better ways to do things. CONTINUOUS PROCESS AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT is the way to continuous growth and development.

02. Question habits :

The best way to tackle these assumptions is to question your habits. If you can make an effort to question the way you do things on a consistent basis, you will find that you can continually improve the way that you work.. Forming habits when they have been well thought out is usually a positive thing, but most of us have adopted our habits from various people and places without even thinking about them.
I have changed a large number of habits that I have had after taking the time to question them and continue to do so. Some of them I have no idea where they came from, while others I can trace to certain people or instances in my life. It's a never ending process, but by doing this, you can consistently strive toward making all aspects of your life more enjoyable instead of defaulting to what you are doing now.

03. Be creative :

When faced with a problem, be creative in looking for a solution.
This often requires thinking outside the box. Most people who viewed this question likely thought they were being asked how they could genetically alter water melons to grow square which would be a much more difficult process to accomplish. By looking at the question from an alternative perspective, however, the solution was quite simple.
Being creative and looking at things in different ways in all portions of your live will help you find solutions to many problems where others can't see them. It's a learned art and builds upon itself.

04. Look for a better way :

The square watermelon question was simply seeking a better and more convenient way to do something. The stores had flagged a problem they were having and asked if a solution was possible. It's impossible to find a better way if you are never asking the question in the first place.
Get into the habit of asking yourself, ' Is there a better way I could be doing this ?' and you will be surprised to find that there often is.

05. Impossibilities often aren't :

If you begin with the notion that something is NOT possible, then it obviously will be impossible for you. If, on the other hand, you decide to see if something is possible or not, you will find out through trial and error. Most of the time you will find that it IS possible to improve upon virtually EVERYTHING you are presently doing .. and that ...

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE !

Source : MailBox

Life

Source - MailBox

God created the donkey
and said to him.
"You will be a donkey. You will work un-tiringly from sunrise to sunset
carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass,
you will have no intelligence and you will live 50 years."
The donkey answered:
"I will be a donkey, but to live 50 years is much. Give me only 20 years"
God granted his wish.

God created the dog
and said to him:
"You will guard the house of man. You will be his best Friend.
You will eat the scraps that he gives you and you will live 30 years.
You will be a dog. "
The dog answered:
"Sir, to live 30 years is too much, give me only 15 years.
" God granted his wish.

God created the monkey
and said to him:
"You will be a monkey. You will swing from branch to branch doing tricks.
You will be amusing and you will live
20 years. "
The monkey answered:
"To live 20 years is too much, give me only 10 years."
God granted his wish.

Finally God created man ...
and said to him:
"You will be man, the only rational creature on the face of the earth.
You will use your intelligence to become master over all the animals..
You will dominate the world and you will live 20 years."

Man responded:
"Sir, I will be a man but to live only
20 years is very little,
give me the 30 years that the donkey refused,
the 15 years that the dog did not want and
the 10 years the monkey refused.
" God granted man's wish
And since then, man lives
20 years as a man ,
marries and spends
30 years like a donkey,
working and carrying all the burdens on his back.

Then when his children are grown,
he lives 15 years like a dog taking care of the house
and eating whatever is given to him,
so that when he is old,
he can retire and live 10 years like a monkey,
going from house to house and from one son or
daughter to another doing tricks to amuse his grandchildren.

That's Life.

Is'nt it ?????

India is still a developing country...!!!

Old Story:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs, dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The
Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.

Indian Version:

The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer
building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and
laughs, dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press
conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be
warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper
next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.

The World is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Arundhati Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.

Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that
Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter

Mayawati states this as 'injustice' done on Minorities.

Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the
Indian Government for not upholding
the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.

The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking
support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting
Peace for prompt support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance).

Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for
'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.

CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing
Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty
among Ants and Grasshoppers.

Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers
on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.

Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism
Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.

Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational
Institutions & in Government Services.

The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left
to pay his retroactive taxes, it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the
Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.

Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'.

Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice '.

CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden '

Koffi Annan invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.

Many years later...

The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi- billion dollar company in Silicon Valley,

100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India,
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..AND

As a result of loosing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers,
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India is still a developing country...!!!

It's September 11th Again

There will be so many great posts today on the September 11, 2001 tragedy and tributes to all those innocent victims who lost their lives at the hands of Islamic terrorists. Our hearts go out to all the families, relatives, friends, and co-workers of those who perished (excluding the terrorists).

Moral Story For Professionals

This is a moral Story for all professionals, rather for all persons doing jobs:

Camels Speaking :

Son: May i ask u some questions?
Mother: sure u can ask.

Son : why do camels have hump?
Mother : well son we are desert animals, we need hum to store water.

Son: Then why are our legs long and our feet rounded
Mother: Obviously for walking in the deserts better than anyone does.

Son : Then why our eyelashes are long.
Mother: To protect us from wind and sand.

Son: So we have hump to store water, long legs to walk better in the desert, long eyelashes to protect from sand and wind.

Then wat the hell we are doing in the ZOO.

Moral

Skills, Knowledge, Abilities are only
Useful if you are in the right place.

Where are u Know?

I didn't inspire terrorists: RGV

Ram Gopal Varma may have been nowhere near Ahmedabad when 17 blasts rocked the city last Friday, but the maverick filmmaker is still trying hard to distance himself from the dastardly act.

Denying reports that his film Contract inspired the terrorist plan, he says such a modus operandi is common across the world.

Contract is third in Varma's trilogy of gangster films. As the maverick director himself writes in his introductory note on the film's website, if Satya in 1998 gave audiences an inside view of the underworld and in 2002 Company provided an overview, Contract moves to the next level where the underworld meets terrorism.

In the film, terrorists are shown planning a series of low intensity bomb blasts, which would be followed by much larger explosions in the vicinity of hospitals once victims were moved there.

This bears an uncanny resemblance to what actually happened in Ahmedabad on Friday and has led people to draw unsavoury parallels between Contract and the terrorist strike.

Varma however is categorical that this is not a case of real life imitating reel life.

"When I was planning Contract, I did a lot of research on terrorist activities around the world. The film's writer Prashant Pandey and I studied in detail the situation in places like Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. I have in fact borrowed a lot from real life incidents. In Afghanistan, for example, it's quite common for a series of blasts to take place, followed by other explosions outside hospitals in the immediate area so that victims, their relatives and the general populace is completely terrorised. Therefore it is I who am inspired by real life, and not the other way around. I don't subscribe to the idea that things would have happened otherwise if I hadn't made Contract," he says.

Actor Zakir Hussain, who plays a notorious terrorist Sultan in Contract, endorses his director's viewpoint. "Sure, like any other Indian I am sad to hear about the tragedy in Ahmedabad. But I don't think Contract gave terrorists the idea of carrying out the serial blasts," he says.

Hussain acknowledges that there is at least one sequence in the film that inspires a sense of deja vu.
According to him: "At one point in Contract, I am telling my people to plant bombs in public places and then target nearby hospitals where victims will be taken for treatment. I believe this is what happened in Ahmedabad too. A bomb was planted outside the hospital and it exploded causing considerable damage."

The actor insists this was a mere coincidence and the media has been guilty of using his footage from Contract to make their point again and again.

"A number of TV channels kept showing my character from the film. If you keep reinforcing an idea, it tends to create a certain perception. What if I go out tomorrow and people think of me as a real life terrorist? This is what I am now afraid of," he admits.

Despite the all negative publicity, Hussain is not apologetic about his role in Contract. "I have no regrets about doing the film. What's regrettable are the blasts and the loss of life that happened in Ahmedabad," he says.

Sakshi Gulati, who plays Sultan's sister Iya in Contract, is willing to stand up for the film as well.

"Had any other film about the underworld or terrorism been released just before the blasts, people would have found some similarity. Therefore it is just a sad coincidence that the Ahmedabad blasts took place within a few days of my film's release. I have always believed that it is reel life that imitates real life and not vice versa," she says.

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