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The Turkey Learn To Fly

by dlysen on February 14, 2010 in Stories with 5 Comments

One day the eagles teach the turkey how to fly gracefully in the sky as they do. They meet on the top of the cliff and started the lesson. After teaching how to use their wings and flap it together to fly they must jump on the cliff. The altitude is so high that the turkeys have to take courage to try. If you learn something new you have to apply and so the turkey did. Basically the turkey can fly but not like what eagles do. So the turkey doubts about it and take their time to stare at the edge of the cliff.

The leader eagle sees that the turkey is afraid to jump on the cliff; he knows that they can fly but they have to try. So he pushes the turkey on the cliff like what they do on their baby eagles. The turkey is falling down so he has to flap their wings to fly or else he will die. It was the great decision, you never know unless you try to do it. Just before he hit the ground he manages to fly and does what the eagles did. It is a great success on the part of the turkey, he discovers that soaring above the skies is great and have much more places to discover. The lesson has ended and the turkey gives a big thanks to the leader eagles. Without you eagles we can never see the skies. Then the turkey went home walking not realizing that he already know how to fly.

How much is that chicken?

by dlysen on January 7, 2010 in Stories with 6 Comments
How much ist that chicken

One day we went from a business trip to meet our leaders to teach them how to leverage their time through others. We show them how rich people use the time of other people to gain more wealth. One example is the fast food chain like Jollibee and McDonald. The owners are not the one you see operating the business but instead the crews, staffs, and manager of the store. They make money out of the efforts of others and the more they are the more they gain wealth. Another example is like buying cigarettes. How many are buying cigarettes right now? If 10% of 95 million Filipinos are smoking, how can sell it to them at once or at the same time? Lucio Tan did it. He uses the channel of distribution to multiply himself, from factory to the warehouse, from warehouse to the wholesaler, and from the wholesaler to store or from the vendor where we can buy cigarettes.
They become rich using the Law of Leverage where they can multiply their time and effort through others. The training is good and the people learn something that can change their life if only they find a way to apply the Law of Leverage.

This is not a true story but it shows the reality how to value things that is lost.

After the training, we traveled back and along the road the vehicle accidentally hit the chicken that crosses the street. It’s a hen that lays eggs. When we ask the owner of that chicken, How much is that chicken? The owner pauses and calculates the price of the chicken. He valued so much the hen that only few know how expensive it is. He shows the price and I was shocked to see the amount of that chicken. It’s almost P1,000,000.00 and how could this be. The farmer said, well that hens lays an egg, and some become a hen and lays eggs too. In her tenth generation, that chicken can produce over a million of eggs and I only charge it for only P1.00 and you must be thankful that. Speechless that chicken applied with the law of leverage and the farmer is the mentor.

Boat Man

by dlysen on December 16, 2009 in Stories with 13 Comments

A professor went on a research to find what culture is in the island. He ride a boat to reach the island and it will journey for about an hour. The place was bored in silence when the professor ask question to the boat man.

Do you know about Philosophy? The professor asked.
I don’t know more about Philosophy but a little less. The boat man answered.
And the professor said that, Do you know that you miss one fourth of your life and continue to ask more questions.

Do you know about Science? The professor asked again.
I don’t know more about Science but a little less. The boat man answered.
The professor smile and said you miss again another one fourth of your life and continue to ask more questions.

Do you know more about Mathematics? The professor asked again.
I don’t know more about Mathematics but a little less. The boat man answered.

The professor are boastfully high to see himself that he know everything while in the middle of the ocean.

The boat man are now afraid that he already miss three fourth off his life and one more question from the professor will be a whole life to be miss.

The boat seems to be in trouble, it will sink in the middle and they have to swim on the sea shore. The boat man asked the professor. Do you know how to swim? If not, you miss your whole life here.

We don’t know everything in this world and we must keep humble because we never know that the person you are dealing with know something that you didn’t know.

Teach me Kung-Fu

by dlysen on December 13, 2009 in Stories with 8 Comments

The old mates at age of 60’s are fishing on the river and on the other side a kung-fu student are practicing his lesson although he already master at his level. He is so proud that he is the strongest among all the students.
After the lesson ends, the students are watching old mates fishing while they find something unusual. One of the old mates went to crossover the river to urinate, the see the old man just running over the water to cross the river, and get back after. They saw another one to crossover the river and went back to fishing.
One pupil become boastful then he attempt to try and said that if the old man can do, I can do it too, and the boastful pupil tries to crossover the river. The students were panicking when they notice that their friend is drowning. They ask the old man to save the life of the classmate.

bridge pole

bridge pole

After the old man save him, the students were asking how they can easily crossover the river without drowning, and what kind of kung-fu is that. The old man laugh, There is no kung-fu technique, did you know that ten years ago there was a bridge over there, the bridge is gone but the pole are still there where we use to step to crossover the river. If you ask us first you probably crossover easily and not been drown.

Learning from the experience of others is the shortest way to success. Following the footsteps of successful people is the fastest way to become successful.

For One Who Works Hard

by dlysen on December 4, 2009 in Stories with 7 Comments

One morning I wasted nearly an hour watching a tiny ant carry a huge feather cross my back terrace. Several times it was confronted by obstacles in its path and after a momentary pause it would make the necessary detour.

At one point the ant had to negotiate a crack in the concrete about 10mm wide. After brief contemplation the ant laid the feather over the crack, walked across it and picked up the feather on the other side then continued on its way.

I was fascinated by the ingenuity of this ant, one of God’s smallest creatures. It served to reinforce the miracle of creation. Here was a minute insect, lacking in size yet equipped with a brain to reason, explore, discover and overcome. But this ant, like the two-legged co-residents of this planet, also shares human failings.

After some time the ant finally reached its destination – a flower bed at the end of the terrace and a small hole that was the entrance to its underground home. And it was here that the ant finally met its match. How could that large feather possibly fit down small hole?

Of course it couldn’t. So the ant, after all this trouble and exercising great ingenuity, overcoming problems all along the way, just abandoned the feather and went home.

The ant had not thought the problem through before it began its epic journey and in the end the feather was nothing more than a burden.

Isn’t OUR LIFE like that?

We worry about our family; we worry about money or the lack of it, we worry about work, about where we live, about all sorts of things. These are all burdens – the things we pick up along life’s path and lug them around the obstacles and over the crevasses that life will bring, only to find that at the destination they are useless and we can’t take them with US.

How to catch monkey in India?

by dlysen on November 27, 2009 in Stories with 6 Comments

Monkeys are known to be selfish and greedy for some reason that it can’t let go of the things even if that can change his future.

The monkey grabs the food inside the jar and the hand is locked when the paw is close. Observed that the monkey will never let go off on the things he hold, so selfish and greedy that the monkey eventually catch with a heavy jar locked in the hand.

Are you a monkey or not?

In other way sometimes it’s hard to let go of a habit repeatedly ends with same result, we never try to escape or accept changes that can make a difference.

We are being comfortable as it is but we deprive the opportunity to change our life.

Struggle

by dlysen on November 24, 2009 in Stories with 6 Comments

Trials in life can be tragedies or triumphs, depending on how we handle them. Triumphs don’t come without effort.

A biology teacher was teaching his students how a caterpillar turns into a butterfly. He told the students that in the next couple of hours, the butterfly would struggle to come out of the cocoon, but no one should help the butterfly. Then he left. The students were waiting and I happened. The butterfly struggled to get out of the cocoon, and one of the students took pity on it and decided to help the butterfly out of the cocoon against the device of his teacher. He broke down the cocoon to help the butterfly so it didn’t have to struggle anymore. But shortly afterwards, the butterfly died.

There is nothing worthwhile in life without a struggle

There is nothing worthwhile in life without a struggle

When the teacher returned, he was told what happened. He explained to his student that by helping the butterfly, he had actually killed it because it is a law of nature, that the struggle to come out of the cocoon actually helps develop and strengthen its wings. The boy had deprived the butterfly of its struggle and the butterfly died.

Apply the same principle to our lives. There is nothing worthwhile in life without a struggle.

The Faithful Juan

by dlysen on November 18, 2009 in Stories with 8 Comments

Typhoons come to a village and start bringing more rain. There is a faithful and prayerful Juan who is brave enough to resist the gradual flood level. The man on the village said to Juan when the flood level is on the knee “Hurry up Juan, I’m the barangay captain let’s move to the safe place.” But Juan resists and said, “I believe in God, He will keep me safe.” And the barangay captain went off.

When the flood is on his chest a boat came and the man said “Hurry up Juan, I’m the city mayor let’s move to the safe place.” But Juan resists and said, “I believe in God, He will keep me safe.” And the barangay captain went off.

When the flood is a little over on his roof a helicopter came and the man said “Hurry up Juan, I’m the governor let’s move to the safe place.” But Juan resists and said, “I believe in God, He will keep me safe.” And the barangay captain went off.

The Faithful Juan

The Faithful Juan

And finally Juan died when he drowns on the flood and the good news is that Juan goes to heaven. Juan asks the angels. “Why I am here? Why did I die when my faith is good?” The angels reply to Juan “we did not let you die, the truth is we send you the barangay captain to get you safe but you resist, the second time we let the mayor convinced you but you still resist, we know that your faith is good that we even send a helicopter rescue but you remain on what you believe, it’s too good that you make it heaven.”

We often neglected the things were looking for especially we doubt on the things we see as it is. The answers are already there but we always prefer to choose what we believe and it’s sometimes too late to get back on the things passed by.

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