The following picks are for your deep thinking part
of the mind. Read, think and kindle your gray matter.
Age appears to be best in four things ...
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“Age appears to be
best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine
sought to drink, old friends best to trust, and old
authors best to read.”
—Francis Bacon
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Bring confidence to the fore !
There was a business executive who
was deep in debt and could see no way out.
Creditors were closing in on him. Suppliers were demanding payment.
He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything
could save his company from bankruptcy.
Suddenly an old man appeared before him. ”I can see that
something is troubling you,” he said.
After listening to the executive’s woes, the old man said,
“I believe I can help you.”
He asked the man his name, wrote out a check, and pushed it into
his hand saying, “Take this money. Meet me here exactly
one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time.”
Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come.
The business executive saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed
by John D. Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world!
“I can erase my money worries in an instant!” he realized.
But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed check in
his safe. Just knowing it was there might give him the strength
to work out a way to save his business, he thought.
With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended
terms of payment. He closed several big sales. Within a few months,
he was out of debt and making money once again.
Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed
check. At the agreed-upon time, the old man appeared. But just
as the executive was about to hand back the check and share his
success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.
“I’m so glad I caught him!” she cried. “I
hope he hasn’t been bothering you. He’s always escaping
from the rest home and telling people he’s John D. Rockefeller.”
And she led the old man away by the arm.
The astonished executive just stood there, stunned. All year long
he’d been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced
he had half a million dollars behind him.
Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money, real
or imagined, that had turned his life around. It was his newfound
self-confidence that gave him the power to achieve anything he
went after.
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