This weeks inspiration story
An old poem tells of a woman who was walking through a meadow one day. As she strolled along, meditating on nature, she came upon a field of golden pumpkins. In the corner of the field stood a majestic, huge oak tree.
The woman sat under the oak tree and began musing about the strange twists in nature. Why tiny acorns on huge branches and huge pumpkins on tiny vies. She thought, God blundered with Creation! He should have put the small acorns on the tiny vines and the large pumpkins on the huge branches.
Before long, the woman dozed off in the warmth of the late autumn sunshine. She was awakened when a tiny acorn bounced off her nose. Chuckling to herself, she amended her previous thinking; Maybe God was right after all!
In every situation, God knows far more about the people and circumstance involved than we can ever know. He alone sees the beginning from the ending. He alone knows how to create a Master Plan that provides for the good of all those who serve Him.
ANOTHER LITTLE STORY I LIKE.
Success in business is often closely associated with a person's courage and ability to recover from his or her most recent failure!
In 1928, a 33 year-old man by the name of Paul Galvin, found himself staring at failure ... again. He had failed in business twice at this point, his competitors having forced him to fold his latest venture in the storage-battery business. Convinced, however, that he still had a marketable idea; Galvin attended the auction of his own business. With $750 he managed to raise, be bought back the battery eliminator portion of the inventory. Within, he build a new company ... one in which he succeeded ... one from which he eventually retired ... one that became a household word: Motorola. Upon his retirement, Galvin advised others: "Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure --- continue to reach out."
A failure isn't truly a failure until you quit trying. If a venture begins to slow down, try speeding up your efforts. Consider the child who allows a bicycle to slow to a halt. Eventually the bicycle wobbles to the point where the child falls off. The key to turning around the crash! Faster peddling! The same holds true for many an enterprise.
The train of failure usually runs on the track of laziness.
Thank you for taking a few minutes to read some of our Chairman's favorite little stories or nuggets as he likes to call them (nuggets: anything of great value, significance, or the like: nuggets of wisdom) that he has read over the years. He makes no claims other than he has read these stories and enjoyed and is passing them on to you. ENJOY! (1048)