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Always remember to play nicely in the sandbox.
You never know when one of those people may become your best
friend for life.
READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND SEE HOW YOU FEEL AND
IF YOU DECIDE PLEASE RETURN LIKE IT STATES.
Interesting and very thoughtful message for all to read.
A successful businessman 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. Every day, 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 boardroom.
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
So, be careful what you plant now; it will determine what
you will reap later.
Think about this for a minute.
If I happened to show up on your door step crying, would you
care? If I called you and asked you to pick me up because
something happened, would you come?
If I had one day left to live my life, would you be part of
that last day? If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you
give me yours? This is a test to see who your real friends
are or if you are just someone to talk to you when they are
bored.
Do you know what the relationship is between your two eyes?
They blink together, they move together, they cry together,
they see things together,
and they sleep together,but they never see each other;
that's what friendship is.
Your aspiration is your motivation, your motivation is your
belief , your belief is your peace, your peace is your
target, your target is heaven, and life is like hard core
torture without it.
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