"Act as if it were impossible to fail. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. "What small potatoes we all are, compared with what we might be; despite past experiences, stepfamilies can walk with divine confidence through the struggles with past failures and mixed expectations in order to find hope for a future together.
Success has been defined to us as many things, wealth, power, fame, etc. However, success is not a “thing” it is a journey. With Your Road Map for Success, we don't really want to change. We just want to feel better for the moment. Prayer changes things, but it doesn't come easy for some. Sometimes it takes a painful experience to make us change our ways. Be humble when you correct people who oppose you. Maybe God will lead them to turn to him and learn the truth. Proverbs 20:30 (TEV), 2 Tim. 2:25 (CEV)
Let me tell you a story: sometimes ago there is a boy called
THE BIG STONES
One day, an old professor of the national School of administration (ENA-France) was asked to give a training-course on the effective economic planning of one's time to a group of about fifteen leaders of big companies from North -
Standing in front of this group of elite who was ready to note everything that the expert was going to teach, the old Prof. looked at them one by one, slowly, and then said to them: "We are going to make an experiment". From under the table which separated him from his pupils, the old Prof. took out an immense jar Mason of a gallon (glass jar of more than 4 litters) which he directly put in front of him. Then, he took out about a dozen pebbles roughly as big as tennis balls and placed them delicately, one by one, in the big jar. When the jar was filled up to the brim, and when it was impossible to add anything to it, he raised slowly his eyes towards the pupils, and asked them: "Is this jar full?" Everybody answered: "Yes". He waited for a few seconds and added: "Really?" Then, he bent again and took out from under the table a pot filled with little stones. With accuracy, he poured these little pebbles on the big stones, and then moved softly the jar.
The fragments of little pebbles went between the stones down to the bottom of the jar. The old Prof. raised his eyes again towards his audience and asked: "Is this jar full?” This time, his brilliant pupils began to understand the whole process. One of them answered: "Probably not!" "Well!" answered the old Prof. He bent again and this time, took out from under the table a bucket of sand. With attention, he poured the sand into the jar. The sand went to fill the spaces between the big stones and the little pebbles. Once again, he asked: "Is this jar full?” This time, without hesitation, and in a choir, the brilliant pupils answered: "No!” "Well!" answered the old Prof. And, as expected by the brilliant pupils, he took the jug of water which was on the table and filled the jar up to the brim. Then, the old Prof. raised his eyes towards his group and asked: "Which big truth does this experiment show to us?”.
Being no fool, the most audacious of the pupils, thinking about the topic of this course, answered: "It shows that even when one believes that our diary is completely filled, if one wants really wants it, one can add more meetings to it, more things to be made". The old Prof. answered. "It is not that".
"The big truth that this experiment shows to us is the following one: "If one does not put the big stones first in the jar, one will never be able to make all of them go in, then”. There was a profound silence, each becoming aware of the evidence of these comments. Then, the old Prof. told them: "Which are the big stones in your life?" "Your health, Your family, "Your friends, To make your dreams come true, Learning, To do what you enjoy, To relax, To fight for a cause, To take time for yourself, any other thing?" I added to the list your marriage and children. What it is necessary to remember is the importance to put one's BIG STONES in first in one's life, otherwise one encores the risks not succeed in one's life. If one gives priority to peccadilloes (the little pebbles, the sand), one will fill one's life with peccadilloes and one will have no more enough precious time to dedicate to the important elements of one's life.
Then do not forget to ask to yourself this question: "Which are the BIG STONES IN MY LIFE? Then, put them in, first” With a friendly gesture of the hand, the old professor greeted his audience and slowly left the room.What are the BIG STONES in your life? It can be summon if you belief and make your perspectives serves you right. It’s not what you see that matters but how you see what you see. It’s not what happens to you that counts, but how you handle what has happened to you and move on with your life.
