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Jan 27

Food For Thought For Friday, January 27th, 2012

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

— Robert Frost

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Jan 26

Food For Thought For January 26th, 2012

               Nasreddin's Flower Garden 

Traditional Sufi Story  

  

A young man named Nasreddin planted a flower garden, but when the flowers came up so did a great crop of dandelions among them. Wishing to eliminate the unwanted guests, Nasreddin consulted with gardeners near and far, but none of their solutions worked.

Finally, Nasreddin traveled to the palace of the sheik to seek the wisdom of the royal gardener himself. But alas, Nasreddin had already tried all the methods the kind old man recommended to him for eradicating such troublesome weeds.

Silently they sat together for a good long time. At last, the royal gardener looked at Nasreddin and said, "Well, then, the only thing I can suggest is that you learn to love them."

Jan 25

Food For Thought For January 25th, 2012

 
 

What Life Is All About

Author Unknown

  

Life isn't about keeping score. It's not about how many friends you have. Or how many people call you. Or how accepted or unaccepted you are. Not about if you have plans this weekend. Or if you're alone. It isn't about who you're dating, who you use to date, how many people you've dated, or if you haven't been with anyone at all. It isn't about who you have kissed. It's not about sex. It isn't about who your family is or how much money they have. Or what kind of car you drive. Or where you're sent to school.

It's not about how beautiful or ugly you are. Or what clothes you wear, what shoes you have on, or what kind of music you listen to. It's not about if your hair is blonde, red, black, brown, or green. Or if your skin is too light or too dark.

It's not about what grades you get, how smart you are, how smart everyone else thinks you are, or how smart standardized tests say you are. Or if this teacher likes you, or if this guy/girl likes you. Or what clubs you're in, or how good you are at "your" sport. It's not about representing your whole being on a piece of paper and seeing who will "accept the written you".

But life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. It's about keeping or betraying trust. It's about friendship, used as sanctity, or as a weapon. It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful, maybe heartening. About starting rumors and contributing to petty gossip. It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to.

It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention. It's about jealousy, fear, pain, ignorance, and revenge. It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow and spreading it.

But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could never occurred alone. Only you choose the way these hearts are affected and those choices are what life is all about.

 

Jan 20

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Jan 20

Food For Thought For Friday, January 20th, 2012

The Cracked Pot 

Author Unknown  

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the end of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots was perfectly made and never leaked. The other pot had a crack in it and by the time the water bearer reached his master's house it had leaked much of it's water and was only half full.

For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his master's house. Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what it had been made to do.

After two years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. "I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you." "Why?" asked the bearer. "What are you ashamed of?" "I have been able, for these past two years, to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your master's house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts," the pot said.

The water bearer felt sorry for the old cracked pot, and in his compassion he said, "As we return to the master's house, I want you to notice the beautiful flowers along the path."

Indeed, as they went up the hill, the old cracked pot took notice of the sun warming the beautiful wild flowers on the side of the path, and this cheered it some. But at the end of the trail, it still felt bad because it had leaked out half its load, and so again the pot apologized to the bearer for its failure.

The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of your path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I took advantage of it. I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back from the stream, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate my master's table. Without you being just the way you are, he would not have this beauty to grace his house."

Each of us has our own unique flaws. We're all cracked pots. Don't be afraid of your flaws. Acknowledge them, and you too can be the cause of beauty. Know that in our weakness we find our strength.

Jan 19

Food For Thought For Thursday, January 19th, 2012

When the Thrill Is Gone

by Unknown

Sometimes  we have a love-hate relationship with our jobs. This feeling may cause you to think that you need to change jobs when what you really need to change is your relationship with your job. How can you do that? By working on it. Here are some suggestions to help you:

  • What about your job still excites you? Is it giving presentations? Is it solving staff difficulties? Is it training and teaching? Is it the way you feel when you finish a project, streamline a process? Find at least one thing about your job that still makes you feel good.
  • Focus on yourself. Improve  what you do. Why continue to do your job the same old way? Be creative and make things easier for yourself.
  • Enrich the quality of your life on the job. What about your coworkers? With which ones could you cultivate or deepen a friendship? Don’t know? Take time to find out, and then work on these relationships. They add depth and positive feelings to your work life.
  • Don’t take criticism personally. Look at it as feedback, another person’s perception. See it as another person’s analysis of your work, not something carved in stone about you personally.
  • Make an analysis of your own. Write down all the areas that cause stress on the job. Some of them you may be able to change; some of them you may not be able to change. But at least you’ll know concretely and exactly what these stressors are instead of perceiving one big, all-consuming bundle of stress.
  • Notice where you’re disorganized. Make a to-do list, have a place for everything and everything in its place, prioritize tasks and problems, organize your office and your work flow.
  • Don’t let yourself stagnate. Increase your skills and competencies on the job and off the job. Take a class you have an interest in; join a group of some kind. As you grow, you may find you like your job much better, or you may find something else you’d rather do, someplace else you’d rather work. Either way, you’ll feel better if you’re growing. There’s definitely excitement in that.
  • Don’t be work obsessed. Spend part of your time in activities you enjoy that are not work related. Fun with family and friends should not be a secondary part of your life. If they are, you’re living an unbalanced life. No wonder you feel dissatisfied.
  • Find your bliss. The secret of happiness is not in getting the things you like but in liking the things you get. Another side to this is that you are more likely to get things you like when you close down your self-pity party and   change what you can and build on what you enjoy. Live your life according to what you want. And accept that other people’s wants sometimes conflict with yours. That doesn’t make you trapped. That makes you tap your own creativity and live your life to the fullest.

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