mercredi 23 mars 2011

The golf ball theory of life

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him.



When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. Then he asked the students if the jar was full.

They agreed that it was.
Then the professor picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar.
He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. Then he asked the students again if the jar was full.
They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full.
The students responded ”yes.”
Then The professor produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty space between the sand.
The students laughed.


“Now,” said the professor, as the laughter subsided, “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things :Family, children, health, friends, and favourite passions things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full. The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, house, and car. The sand is everything else, the small stuff.”
“If you put the sand into the jar first,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
“So. Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play another ound of golf. There will always be time to clean the house and mow the lawns. Take care of the golf balls first, the things that really matter. Set your priorities, the rest is just sand.”
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented.
The professor smiled. “I’m glad you asked. It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.”

mardi 15 mars 2011

Eagle and chicken

There was an eagle living in a nest on the top of a tree, eagle had four eggs, but one day a earthquake shook the earth and fell down one egg, it rolled into a chicken farm.

A old chicken decided to take care about the eagle egg until it hatchs.
When the eagle egg hatched, it grow up with chicken and it think that it is a chicken and not a eagle.
One day as the little eagle was playing in the yard of the farm, it saw a group of eagles flying proudly high in the sky, it wish that if it can fly high, such as eagles, but other little chicken laugh at it wish and said you are just a chicken and not a eagle.

The little eagle casts its eyes downwards and continued digging in the dirt.
After a long years the little eagle lived and died as a chicken because that all it believed what itself to be.
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samedi 12 mars 2011

King and Minister

There was a king governing a country, he had many ministers, and he decided to enact a new law. The law says : “If someone makes error he will put him into prison with fiercer dogs”
One day, once of ministers made a mistake, the king decided to put the minister in the prison with dogs.
Minister said : please don’t do it, I work very hard and I didn’t mind, it’s my first mistake
But the king said : it’s the law, I can’t change it, I have to do it and you will be a example to others.
Minister asked the king to give him time and then he can execute the order.
The king gave him 10 days, the minister asked the dogs warden to let him look after dogs.
On the morning of 11th day, the king order dogs warden to put the minister with fierce dogs, but dogs didn’t attack the minister and they licked him.
The king asked : what’s happening ? why dogs didn’t attack the minister ?
The minister said : I looked after dogs 10 days and they know my favor, but I worked for you many years but you didn’t remind any things about my loyalty.