Bundle of Sticks

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Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 182 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond

A story is told about a father who wanted to show his quarrelsome sons the importance of living together in peace, so he asked them to bring him a bundle of sticks. Then he asked each one of them to break the bundle over his knee. They all tried, but they failed.

The father then untied the bundle and gave each one of them a single stick which they were able to break easily.

“There, you see” said the father, “If only you would unite, then you would be strong enough to meet any difficulty which may arise. But, if you work separately you will be weak, and at the mercy of anyone who might attack you.” (more…)

Flies in a Bottle

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Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 181 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond

There is a story about a philosopher named Ludwig Wittgenstein. He discovered that when you put a fly in a bottle, it dives right to the bottom and then it flies back up to about the middle of it and then it starts flying to the left and hits the wall, and then it flies to the right and hits the wall again, and then it goes back and flies to the left and hits the wall, and flies to the right and hits the wall. The fly keeps flying back and forth from the left to the right, until it just drops from exhaustion. It’s just simply exhausted and it falls, and it dies.

One thing the fly never does, he says, is look up. If that fly ever looked up, it would have seen that there was an opportunity to get out, just fly away and be free. Often, we find ourselves in situations where we don’t look up, we see only saturation, frustration. (more…)

Chinese Crisis

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Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 180 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond

In Chinese, the word crisis is the same as the word opportunity. Now you might ask, how is that possible? These are two paradoxical concepts or at least antithetical ideas. An opportunity is something that takes you to the next level. A crisis is something that may either drown you or possibly cause an issue in your life; something which is important to pay attention to. Yet the Chinese see this concept as the same.

I’m not sure exactly why this happened but my own ideas, is that the Chinese see opportunities sometimes coming out of crisis. When there is a crisis, it’s really not a crisis. It’s actually an opportunity in disguise. I love that concept. There was a scientist who passed away back in ’88 and actually even received a Nobel Prize. He said, “My mother made me into a scientist without ever intending to do so.” Yet he said, “Every parent asks their children, did you get all your answers today in school?” But he said, “My mother asked, did you have a ‘good question’ today?” (more…)

Unique Potential

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Daily Wisdom  – Motivational Podcast – Day 178 – Inspiration: Above and Beyond

It’s interesting that the process of human change actually begins within us. Each of us have the ability to put our unique human potential into action and to acquire a result that we desire. No other person on Earth has dominion over your attitude.

You create that.

You accept that the way that you wish to.

No one can control your attitude unless you voluntarily surrender that control. You choose; not them. Most people around you that try to influence you merely try to test your attitude. If you condemn yourself by believing that you are unworthy, then again it shows that you’ve failed the test. (more…)