A winner is neither made nor finished in one try
This holds true except under one circumstance. That is as long as we don't
give up or never try. I am reminded of situation after situation where
persistence has won out. My friend, there is no rule that says we have to
already be an expert before moving towards our dreams.
Life will show us the way towards achievement if we only allow ourselves to
remain focussed on that which we want to see manifest in our lives.
Believe in the power of your dreams even if no one else does because when
you make them a reality it won't matter who doubted you.
To Your Success, Josh Hinds
9. Magic of challenges
The Japanese have
always loved fresh fish. But the waters close to Japan have not held many fish
for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and
went farther than ever.
The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring in the fish. If
the return trip took more than a few days, the fish were not fresh.
The Japanese did not like the taste.
To solve this problem, fishing companies installed freezers on their boats.
They would catch the fish and freeze them at sea. Freezers allowed the
boats to go farther and stay longer. However, the Japanese could taste the
difference between fresh and frozen and they did not like frozen fish.
The frozen fish brought a lower price. So fishing companies installed fish
tanks. They would catch the fish and stuff them in the tanks, fin to fin.
After a little thrashing around, the fish stopped moving. They were tired and
dull, but alive. Unfortunately, the Japanese could still taste the difference.
Because the fish did not move for days, they lost their fresh-fish taste. The
Japanese preferred the lively taste of fresh fish, not sluggish fish.
So how did Japanese fishing companies solve this problem? How do they get
fresh-tasting fish to Japan? If you were consulting the fish industry, what
would you recommend?
How Japanese Fish Stay Fresh:
To keep the fish tasting fresh, the Japanese fishing companies still put
the fish in the tanks. But now they add a small shark to each tank. The shark
eats a few fish, but most of the fish arrive in a very lively state. The fish
are challenged.
Have you realized that some of us are also living in a pond but most of the
time tired & dull, so we need a Shark in our life to keep us awake and moving?
Basically in our lives Sharks are new challenges to keep us active and taste
better...
The more intelligent, persistent and competent you are, the more you enjoy
a challenge.
If your challenges are the correct size, and if you are steadily conquering
those challenges, you are Conqueror. You think of your challenges and get
energized. You are excited to try new solutions.
10. The touchstone
When the great library of Alexandria
burned, the story goes, one book was saved. But it was not a valuable book;
and so a poor man, who could read a little, bought it for a few coppers.
The book wasn't very interesting, but between its pages there was something
very interesting indeed. It was a thin strip of vellum on which was written
the secret of the "Touchstone"!
The touchstone was a small pebble that could turn any common metal into pure
gold. The writing explained that it was lying among thousands and thousands of
other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The
real stone would feel warm, while ordinary pebbles are cold.
So the man sold his few belongings, bought some simple supplies, camped on the
seashore, and began testing pebbles.
He knew that if he picked up ordinary pebbles and threw them down again
because they were cold, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times.
So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole
day doing this but none of them was the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this
way. Pick up a pebble. Cold - throw it into the sea. Pick up
another. Throw it into the sea.
The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months. One day, however,
about mid afternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into
the sea before he realized what he had done. He had formed such a strong
habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted came
along, he still threw it away.
So it is with opportunity. Unless we are vigilant, it's easy to fail to
recognize an opportunity when it is in hand and it's just as easy to throw it
away.
