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The Seed
A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to
choose a successor to take over the business.
Instead of choosing one of his Directors or his children, he
decided to do something different.
He called all the young executives in his company together.
He said, “It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. I have decided to choose one of you.
The young executives were Shocked, but the boss continued. “I am going to give each one of you a SEED today one very special SEED.
I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you.
I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.”
One man, named Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the story. She helped him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted the seed.
Everyday, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow.
Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.
Three weeks,
four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing. By
now, others were talking about their plants,
but Jim didn’t have a plant and he felt like a failure.
Six months went by — still nothing in Jim’s pot. He just knew he had killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had nothing.
Jim didn’t say anything to his colleagues, however… He just
kept watering and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company
brought their plants to the CEO for inspection.
Jim told his wife that he wasn’t going to take an empty pot. But she
asked him to be honest about what happened. Jim felt sick
to his stomach, it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew his wife was right.
He took his empty pot to the board room. When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the other executives.. They were beautiful — in all shapes and sizes.
Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed, a few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back. “My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,” said the CEO. “Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!”
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted Jim at the back of the room with his
empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front.
Jim was terrified. He thought, “The CEO knows I’m a failure! Maybe he will have me fired!”
When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his seed - Jim told him the story.
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then announced to the young executives, “Behold your next Chief Executive Officer! His name is Jim!”
Jim couldn’t believe it. Jim couldn’t even grow his seed.
”How could he be the new CEO?” the others said.
Then the CEO said, “One year ago today, I gave everyone in this
room a seed. I told you to take the seed, plant it,water it, and bring
it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.
All of you, except Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for the one I gave you.
Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to bring me a
pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the new Chief Executive Officer!”
* If you plant honesty, you will reap trust
* If you plant goodness, you will reap friends
* If you plant humility, you will reap greatness
* If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment
* If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective
* If you plant hard work, you will reap success
* If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation
* If you plant faith in God , you will reap a harvest. So, be careful
what you plant now; it will determine what you will reap later..
”Whatever You Give To Life, Life Gives You Back”
KEEP THIS STORY FOR YOUR CHILDREN TO KNOW …TELL THEM AGAIN AND AGAIN AND PLANT THE MORAL OF THIS STORY IN THEIR HEARTS…
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DATE WITH A WOMAN
After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out
to dinner and a movie. She said I love you but I know this other woman
loves you and would love to spend some time with you.
The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my MOTHER, who has
been a widow for 19 years, but the demands of my work and my three
children had made it possible to visit her only occasionally.
That night I called to invite her to go out for dinner and a movie.
‘What’s wrong, are you well,’ she asked? My mother is the type of woman
who suspects that a late night call or a surprise invitation is a sign
of bad news.
‘I thought that it would be pleasant to be with you,’ I responded.’ Just
the two of us.’
She thought about it for a moment, and then said, ‘I would like that
very much.’
That Friday after work, as I drove over to pick her up I was a bit
nervous.
When I arrived at her house, I noticed that she, too, seemed to be
nervous about our date. She waited in the door with her coat on. She had
curled her hair and was wearing the dress that she had worn to celebrate
her last wedding anniversary.
She smiled from a face that was as radiant as an angel’s.
‘I told my friends that I was going to go out with my son, and they were
impressed, ’she said, as she got into the car. ‘They can’t wait to hear
about our meeting’. We went to a restaurant that, although not elegant,
was very nice and cozy. My mother took my arm as if she were the First
Lady.
After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Large print. Half way through
the entries, I lifted my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A
nostalgic smile was on her lips.
‘It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were small,’ she
said.’ Then it’s time that you relax and let me return the favor,’ I
responded.
During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation - nothing
extraordinary, but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We
talked so much that we missed the movie.
As we arrived at her house later, she said, ‘I’ll go out with you again,
but only if you let me invite you.’ I agreed.
‘How was your dinner date?’ asked my wife when I got home. ‘Very nice.
Much more so than I could have imagined,’ I answered.
A few days later, my mother died of a massive heart attack. It happened
so suddenly that I didn’t have time to do anything for her.
Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a restaurant
receipt from the same place mother and I had dined.
An attached note said: ‘I paid this bill in advance. I wasn’t sure that
I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates - one for you
and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant
for me.
I love you, son.’
At that moment, I understood the importance of saying in time: ‘I LOVE
YOU!’ and to give our loved ones the time that they deserve. Nothing in
life is more important than God and your family. Give them the time they
deserve, because these things cannot be put off till ’some other time.’
This article was put up so that for once you can also be a child and hug and love your parents before it is too late!
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‘Values are not be taught but to be caught’
This of course signifies what should be your role in teaching your kids values. But we are humans and it is common to goof up at times and commit those mistakes which your child should not be learning. So what do we do at those times? Here are a few mistakes or slips that we may commit and the ways to transform those moments to teach values to your children.
The most common mistake that we may do in front of our children… How many of you have told your child to tell on the phone that you are not there or told your child that you will come back soon and take hours to come. These are common examples and telling these lies chronically can lead to your child feeling that telling lies is an easy way out of any disaster or that telling lies is fine.
You may try to avoid these situations or confess that you have committed a mistake by saying that particular thing. Your child will be much more relaxed when she knows that it was not a deliberate mistake and that you would try to change.
This is something that most of us do all the time and your child learns that it is an easy way out of frustration. If you shout at your kids for being lazy and making you do all the work, they know that they too can shout and shift the blame if they are unable to cope up with any situation.
So the only way out is to move out and take a minute or so alone in a room when you are about to blow up or if you’ve already done so, take responsibility for your actions later on. It would be better to apologize to your children saying that you were very tired and will try to be patient or take control next time.
One easy method is to device a plan whereby your child can signal to you when you are losing it by either clapping or saying something like ‘laugh, laugh, and laugh’
After some practice you will be able to stop yourself on getting these signals and your child will also learn to do control herself in anger.
It is best not to let your child hear you bad mouthing someone as it will teach him to do the same. Instead it is okay for him to see you express your anger towards someone but not labeling or calling out bad names to that person. Bad mouthing will create a negative and destructive type of criticism in your child’s mind and it will also teach him to disrespect others.
If you have bad mouthed someone, you may tell your child later on that it was a mistake and that person has many other good qualities too.
What most of the kids dread and what creates immense insecurity in a child’s mind is to see their parents arguing and fighting with each other. If they have witnessed a nasty scene amongst the two of you, explain to them that there was a difference of opinion but you two still love each other.
Teach your child to respect the person in front and to nurture any relationship he is into.
This is something that you should avoid at all costs. You must teach him to ‘walk his talk’ and to never promise something that will not be fulfilled. If at all you are unable to fulfill the promise you have given to him, tell him so and make up for it by giving him a treat. But if this is repeated too often, your child will not only lose her trust on you but on others too. This will be the seed of creating a critical and paranoid mind in your child.
If you cannot control your tongue, how will your child do it? Try to always keep your cool when you are very angry and not throw swears at anyone, be it a beggar on the road or your boss in the office; Children are prone to catching new words and repeating them in places where you wouldn’t want them to. Even words like ‘damn’ should be avoided.
If you have committed the mistake, tell your child immediately that it was a slip of the tongue and it is a wrong usage of words.
These are just some of the values that you can teach your child which will take him a long way in life.
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