TBP Open Your Mind

Life’s lesson No. 1

There once was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower.

A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants.

The race began. No one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower. Statements were made, such as:
“Oh, WAY too difficult!!”
“They will NEVER make it to the top.”
“Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!”

Sure enough the tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one, except for those who in a fresh tempo were climbing higher and higher…

The crowd continued to yell
“It is too difficult!!! No one will make it!”

More tiny frogs got tired and gave up, but ONE continued higher and higher and higher…This one wouldn’t give up!

At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower. Except for the one tiny frog who after a big effort was the only one who reached the top.

Afterwards all of the other tiny frogs wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it?

A contestant asked the tiny frog how the one who succeeded had found the strength to reach the goal? It turned out that the winner was deaf!

The wisdom of this story is:
Never listen to other people’s tendencies to be negative or pessimistic, because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you. The ones you have in your heart.

Always think of the power words have because everything you hear and read will affect your actions!

Be positive, and above all be deaf when people tell you that you cannot fulfil your dreams!

Always think, I can do this!

When do you decide to do something? How long does it take?

The truth is you decide to do something in an instant, a ‘now‘, but you probably spend hours/days/weeks or longer reaching that decision.

By not making a decision straight away you are actually making a decision anyway, just without realising it - one to delay making the decision until later, until the ‘right’ now. Then you have a drawn out decision process with yourself where you argue in your mind about whether now is the right time or not.

Finally, the right ‘now’ comes along and you make the final decision, click, in the time it takes to click your fingers the decision is made - now has arrived.

So the next time you are dragging your feet over a decision, stop, make it now.

Like most things in life it will seem easier looking back after the event, and you will realise you were waiting for the wrong now anyway, and could have decided much sooner.