An Inspirational Story
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
(Ms Ritu Sinha)
A
small town chamber of commerce invited a speaker to address its annual dinner.
The community’s economy was bad, people were discouraged, and they wanted this
motivational speaker to give them a boost.
During
her presentation, the speaker took a large piece of white paper and made a
small black dot in the centre of it with a marking pen. Then she held the paper
up before the group and asked them what they saw.
One
person quickly replied, “I see a black dot.”
“Okay,
what else do you see?” Others joined in agreement: “A black dot.”
“Don’t
you see anything besides the dot?” she asked. A resounding “No” came from the
audience.
“What
about the sheet of paper?” asked the speaker? “I am sure you have all seen it”,
she said, “But you have chosen to overlook it.”
“In
life, we also tend to overlook and take for granted many wonderful things that
we have or happen around us and focus our attention and energy on small, dot
like failures and disappointments. The so called ‘problems’ that we have are
usually like the black dot on the paper. They are small and insignificant if we
can widen our horizon and look at the whole picture.”
Are
you one of the people who focus your attention and energy on dot-like problems?
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