The Functioning of a Man’s heart

As an achiever, do you reflect on how you react to situations regularly? Most of the times, our outward actions and reactions depend on the thought processes we have trained our internal being to entertain. The story of this lady should get us thinking…

An old woman stopped by a roadside restaurant one evening, she went to the self-service table and served herself a bowl of hot soup and went to sit alone on a table for the meal, she realizes she had forgotten to take some salt and she went back into the table to get some salt. When she got back to her table, she met a well-dressed young man who had placed his spoon into her bowl of soup and was eating gently in a composed mood.

“Oh! It’s horrible of this ill-mannered guy” thought the brave woman. “I will teach him some good manners” All the same, she sat by the man’s side and charitably let him eat a bit from her bowl. Withdrawing the bowl from the man to herself, she starts eating from the same bowl with the intension of sharing the bowl with him.

The young man pulls the bowl towards him gently and continues to eat. The woman again pulls it towards herself to be able to gain access to the bowl and that’s how they finished the soup. Now the young man got up, made a sign for her to hold on as he went to the table and came back with fries which he shares with her in the same manner like the soup.

At the end, they greeted each other and the woman went into the toilette to ease herself. When she came back, she needed something from her handbag and noticed it was no longer at the foot of her chair and the man was nowhere to be found

“Ah! I should have been careful with this mischievous guy!”, she combs the whole restaurant shouting thief, thief and calling for help until her bag was found leaning gracefully at the foot of a table on which was a bowl of soup already cold – her bowl of soup. She then realizes she had mistaken her table and had shared the young man’s food with him.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (a Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism) wrote “A man’s heart is his paradise and his hell”.

What do you make of this?

The Imagination - My Anecdote of Success

Dear Loving People,

“What the imagination can conceive, the mind can achieve” if you did physics, then you might have heard this statement by the formidable Albert Einstein said many times over. I wonder if my physics teacher hand any other catchy statement other than this one and the truth is, by repeating it to us all the times, it got deep into my subconscious.

Imagination was my sanctuary and unfortunately, most often than not due to my extreme pessimism it also became my ‘prison’ limiting my true potential and aspirations. Whenever I dwelled on negative thoughts and expected bad outcomes, they would manifest themselves as if by magic.

I often felt self pity, defeated by the world and accepted this as my fate.  I was drifting through life without any compass or a road-map.  Only, on odd occasions would I shine and bring out a glimmer of my true potential - which was often short lived.  I would dismiss such rare wonders as sheer coincidence, a freak of nature.

But as time went on, I realized that this was not the case.  I discovered that whenever I expected negative outcomes with constant and intense concentration, due to my pessimism, they would become just that. So, I thought to myself why not use that energy, that power of my imagination, my mind towards something positive.  Over the years that followed I gradually trained my thought patterns, controlling my imagination and seized control of my life.

Fast forward a few years and now, I have picked up and have a fresh extremely positive, brighter outlook, taking in my stride any challenges that life throws my way. However, my journey to enlightenment is progressing but honestly; it wasn’t a pleasant one, often leading to much pain and personal anguish along the way. This is why we’ve got to talk about it and sort it out so that many more people don’t go through experiencing the same pain as I did.

Living Lectures has provided Anecdotes of Success, the giant platform where we can talk about it and help each other to grow. This is my story; this is my Anecdote of Success.

Anecdotes of Success - a new platform for sharing

Dear loving people, 

 

Have you tried to read through peoples' success stories or stories of success before? Most of the times, peoples' success stories inform and motivate us. Countless people have narrated how somebody’s story inspired them to success. This is why we have launched a platform within Living Lectures called Anecdotes of Success.

Through Anecdotes of Success, we want to share those beautiful stories about the lovely people we know or have read about that can inspire us to bring out the best in us. We expect that contributors to Anecdotes of Success will have success stories that linkup effortlessly from one teller to the next conveying values, lessons, motivation and strategic directions.

As you retell these stories, put your God given creative imagination to work, make them short, precise, interesting and embellish them to reflect the ‘Good food’ for the mind that they truly are. In a nutshell, make the stories to come alive.

One thing that I learned quickly in life is that very small things can have awesome outcomes. 

 

You are welcome.