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Daily Wisdom – Motivational Podcast – Day 580 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond
I was once at a small city in the United States and I was traveling to another city, leaving one place to go to another for an important meeting. It turns out that when I got to the plane, it was delayed not once or twice but several times throughout the day. Basically, we were there at the airport for several hours waiting for the airplane to take off. Now, I took this opportunity and actually worked. I made some calls which I had to follow through, and caught up on a lot of the work which I had so I took this as a blessing. Besides, I didn’t have much choice.
People, however, were so upset and they expressed that frustrated anger for no reason. You see, when you practice patience, you increase the chances that you will get what you want, and let me tell you how that worked. By the time we were finally ready to go, which was about six hours later, I got to the counter and the lady who was there seemed to have been quite tired. I walked up to the counter and I felt a surge of sympathy for her, and said “It was a long day for you, wasn’t it?” and she said, “Yes, it was,”. She looked at me and reached into her drawer and gave me a pass, a round-trip ticket anywhere in the country for free. (more…)
