Changed thinking

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CA Anoop Dangwal

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899 Points Joined July 2010

Awesome story :

A Businessman was deep in debt and could not see any way out.

Creditors and Suppliers were demanding payments. He sat in the park, deep in thought, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy.

Suddenly an old man appeared before him and asked,
"I can see that something is troubling you seriously".

After listening patiently the old man said,
"I believe I can help you".
He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque and put it into his hands saying,

"Take this money, meet me here exactly one year from today... and you can pay me back at that time".

Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.

The businessman saw in his hands a cheque for $ 500,000... signed by Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the world.
"I can erase my worries instantly" he realized.
But instead, the man decided to put the uncashed cheque in his safe, knowing that it might give him the strength to work out to save his business and to use this only in case of dire emergency.

With changed thinking he negotiated better deals,restructured his business and worked rigorously with full zeal and enthusiasm and got several big deals.
Within few months, he was out of debt and started making money once again.
Exactly one year later he returned to the park with the uncashed cheque.

As agreed, the old man appeared.

But just as the businessman was about to hand him back the cheque and share his success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
"I’m so glad I caught him" she cried.
"I hope he hasn’t been bothering you much.
He always escapes from the mental hospital and tells people that he is Warren Buffet",
saying this she took the old man away.

The surprised man just stood there, stunned!
All year long he had been dealing thinking that
he had half a million dollars behind him...

Its not the money, real or imagined that turns our life around.
It is our Self-confidence that gives us the power to achieve anything & everything that we want.

Replies (7)

Sathish M

Management Accountant

40581 Points Joined June 2010

Already read this article in CCI very recently. However, nice story to reflect on one's self confidence. Thank you sir for re-posting the story.

Varsha

Student

1164 Points Joined November 2009

Gd 1 Anoop........ kp sharing !!!!

CA Anoop Dangwal

CA M.com B.com

899 Points Joined July 2010

Originally posted by : Sathish M
	Already read this article in CCI very recently. However, nice story to reflect on one's self confidence. Thank you sir for re-posting the story.

Ok , lets do some value addition.......

Another Inspiring Story: A Parable of the Rose ..

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully and
before it blossomed, He examined it. He saw the bud that would soon blossom,
but noticed thorns upon the stem and he thought,

"How can any beautiful flower come from a plant burdened with
so many sharp thorns? "Saddened by this thought, he neglected
to water the rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died.

So it is with many people. Within every soul there is a rose.
The God like qualities planted in us at birth
growing amid the thorns of our faults.
Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns,the defects.
We despair, thinking that nothing good can possibly come from us.

We neglect to water the good within us,
and eventually it dies.

We never realize our potential.
Some people do not see the rose within themselves;
someone else must show it to them.

One of the greatest gifts a person can possess is
to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others.

Lesson from the Inspirational Story:

This is the characteristic of love---to look at a person and
know their true faults. Accepting that person into your life,
while recognizing the nobility in their soul. Help them to realize
that they can overcome their faults. If we show them the rose,
they will conquer their thorns. Only then will they blossom many times over.

Our duty in this world is to help others by showing them their roses
and not their thorns. Only then can we achieve the love
we should feel for each other; only then can we bloom in our own garden.