A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised
a glass of water and asked,
“how heavy is this glass of water? ”
Answers
called out ranged from 20g to 500g.
The lecturer replied,
“The absolute weight doesn’t matter.
It depends on how long you try to hold it.
“If I hold it for a minute, that’s not a problem.
If I hold it for an hour,
I’ll have an ache in my right arm.
If I hold it for a day,
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An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation:
Dear Son,
I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I wont be able to plant my potato garden this year. I hate to miss doing the garden because your mother always loved planting time. Im just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot. If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you werent in prison.
Love,Dad
The following is the philosophy of Charles Schultz , the creator of the “Peanuts” comic strip. You don’t have to actually answer the questions. Just read the e-mail straight through, and you’ll get the point.
1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world .
2. Name the last five Heisman trophy winners.
3. Name the last five winners of the Miss America Contest.
4. Name ten people who have won the Nobel or Pulitzer Prize.
5. Name the last half dozen Academy Award winners for best actor and actress.
by Tama J. Kieves…
Stop Comparing Yourself – Dive Into Your Own Sweet Life!
Some years ago, I sat at this wedding and met a younger woman who had gone to two Ivy League schools and had a masters and a doctorate and had run marathons and traveled in countries like Cambodia and Vietnam. Not only that, but she was strikingly pretty, could belt out Hip Hop at the karaoke bar, had a disarming sense of humor and a sweet husband with buckets of money. Clearly, she’d gotten quite the package deal from the Big Cosmic Travel Agent in the sky. The encounter made me want to run home and win a Nobel Peace prize or at least clean up my basement.Where had my time gone? Why hadn’t I achieved more with my life?
