Life Lessons

Two friends were walking through the desert
During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend
slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything,
wrote in the sand:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided
to take a bath.
The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning,
but the friend saved him.

After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:

TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.

The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend
asked him, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now,
you write on a stone, why?” The other friend replied
“When someone hurts us we should write it down
in sand where winds of forgiveness can erase it away.
But, when someone does something good for us,
we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it.”

LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO
CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.
They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to
appreciate them, a day to love them, but then an entire life
to forget them.

Take the time to live!

Do not value the THINGS you have in your life. But value WHO you have in your life

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Lessons learned in success and failures….

Winning Too Much The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.

Adding Too Much Value The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.

Passing Judgment The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.

Making Destructive Comments The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.

Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However” The overuse of these qualifiers, which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”

Telling the World How Smart We Are The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.

Speaking When Angry Using emotional volatility as a management tool.

Negativity The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we weren’t asked.

Withholding Information The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others. F

ailing to Give Proper Recognition The inability to praise and reward.

Claiming Credit We Don’t Deserve The most annoying way to overestimate our contribution to any success.

Making Excuses The need to reposition our annoying behavior as a permanent fixture so people excuse us for it.

Clinging to the Past The need to deflect blame away from ourselves and onto events and people from our past; a subset of blaming everyone else.

Playing Favorites Failing to see that we are treating someone unfairly.

Refusing to Express Regret The inability to take responsibility for our actions, admit we’re wrong, or recognize how our actions affect others.

Not Listening The most passive-aggressive form of disrespect for colleagues.

Failing to Express Gratitude The most basic form of bad manners.

Punishing the Messenger The misguided need to attack the innocent, who are usually only trying to protect us. .

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