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Never fail to make an attempt
As my friend was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did not. My friend saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.
“Well,” he said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” My friend was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.
Just like these elephants, many of us were brought up with a false self-limiting belief of some sort – ‘I’m not good enough’ or ‘why try if I am not going to make it’, or ‘success, riches & freedom are for the chosen ones’, ‘entrepreneurship is not for me’, ‘I’m only destined to do a job I hate & pay the bills’ and many more versions of this same belief that underestimates the capability, talent, and potential within us.
Your Attempt May Fail But Never Fail To Attempt
* from Amazing Posts.
Rainy days and Mondays…
… always gets me down.
“Forgive and forget. That’s what they say. It’s good advice, but it’s not very practical. When someone hurts us, we want to hurt them back. When someone wrongs us, we want to be right. Without forgiveness, old scores are never settled old wounds never heal. And the most we can hope for, is that one day we’ll be lucky enough to forget.”
- Heart of the Matter episode
Grey’s Anatomy
What if we could forget?
Be thankful
I was reading The Key to a Happy Life: Eight wats to Practice Gratitudeby Marissa A. Ross on HelloGiggles — please take time to read the article, its really nice — and in it was this poem that I’d like to share with you…
Be thankful that you don’t already have everything you desire,
If you did, what would there be to look forward to?
Be thankful when you don’t know something
For it gives you the opportunity to learn.
Be thankful for the difficult times.
During those times you grow.
Be thankful for your limitations
Because they give you opportunities for improvement.
Be thankful for each new challenge
Because it will build your strength and character.
Be thankful for your mistakes
They will teach you valuable lessons.
Be thankful when you’e tired and weary
Because it means you’ve made a difference.
It is easy to be thankful for the good things.
A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are
also thankful for the setbacks.
GRATITUDE can turn a negative into a positive.
Find a way to be thankful for your troubles
and they can become your blessings.
- Author Unknown
It’s really hard to forget what we already have when we want so many things. I, for one, is guilty of this. I get carried away everyday wishing that I had something I didn’t have. (Like how I am not an American Citizen, it would make travelling so much easier. Or that I wish I earned more. You know, stuff like that.) So it’s good to be reminded that we have to appreciate what we have, most of the time I forget.
05.01
“Recovery is not a team sport. Its a solitary distance run. Its long, its exhasuting, and its lonely as hell.
The length of your recovery is determined by the extent of your injuries, and its not always successful, no matter how hard we work at it. Some wounds might never fully heal, you might have to adjust to a whole new way of living. Things may have changed too radically to ever go back to what they were. You might not even recognize yourself, its like you haven’t recovered anything at all. You’re a whole new person, with a whole new life.”
- Grey’s Anatomy
Season 7, Episode 19
