Tapping at the right spot at the right time by the right way!

In one of the famous factory in Detroit, there was an issue in the assembly line and the factory stopped because of it. The local experts tried their best and could not fix the issue. Finally they took the help of an expert from Chicago.

The expert flew from Chicago to Detroit and went through the whole assembly line. At last he stopped at one place and took a spanner from his pocket and tapped it twice on the assembly line. The whole assembly line got back into action. After a week the expert sent his bill of $ 20.000 to the company.

After paying the expert’s bill, the owner of the company rang up to thank him and asked the expert jovially, does each of your tap costs $10,000? The expert said that each tap costs $2 only. And the remaining $19.996 is for knowing where to tap.

Moral :

1. Try all possible solution to solve an existing problem
2. Do not judge a person by what they do but judge by what value they create
3. Do not charge your customer based on what you had done, but by what they gained by it
4. When you produce results, you get whatever you ask for.
5. Great People do not do different things but they do things differently
6. Tapping at the right spot at the right time by the right way matters

The Old Lady and the Fire

Long long ago, so long ago, nobody knew how long ago, there lived an Old Lady in a small village. The old lady was staying alone and was managing her work by herself. She used to get up early every morning, before anyone in the village could get up.

In those days there were no match boxes or lighters to create fire. Rubbing two firestones to create fire was the known way. Since the old lady gets up earlier, she used to be first person to create fire in the whole village. For the sake of convenience, the neighbours used to light their piece of wood from the old lady. But nobody would thank the old lady.

This was a cause of concern for the old lady. She thought about it for a long time. One day she thought that she would quietly vacate the village and move into a new village. She thought that since she is not there to create fire, the whole village would get affected and would understand her value. Also thought that nobody would cook their food. So, on one fine morning, the old lady moved out of the village.

After several months, the old lady came back to the village and was shocked. Much to her disappointment, the village was functioning normal. Everone in the village was as happy as they used to be. Every house prepared their food. The old lady felt bad about herself and returned back to the village and continued to stay there happily. And from the next day onwards her neighbours started lighting their fire from the old lady's house.

Moral:

1. Irespective of your presence, the world continues to function as is
2. Thanks are not to be demanded but earned
   
3. Lessons are not to be taught but to be learned

The Sage and the small Boy

Once there lived a sage in a small village. Whatever the sage advices people followed. So, people from far of distance use to visit the sage with their naughty child, wife, husband, brother, sister to get advice from the sage.

Mary was living in the next village. She was worried about her son Mark's habbit of eating more sweets. She had warned Mark about this, but he does not seem to hear his mother's words. Through neighbours, Mary came to know about the sage and his power.

On one fine day, Mary took her son Mark to the sage. Mary complained about her son's habbit to the sage. The sage, after thinking about this for a couple of minutes asked Mary and Mark to visit him after 10 days.

Mary was waiting for the completion of 10 days. Exactly on the 11th day, she took her son to the sage. She reminded the sage about the complaint. The sage looked at Mark, with a confident voice, he said - "Son! stop eating sweets". Mark nodded. Both the mother and her son left the place.

To her surprise, Mary found that from that day onwards, Mark had completely stopped eating sweets. She was happy and wanted to thank the sage. So, the next week, she went and visited the sage and thanked him. When she was about to leave the place, she asked the sage, why he wanted them to come after 10 days. She wondered why not the sage told Mark the same words 10 days earlier.

Smiling at Mary's question, the sage replied that till she complained about Mark, he was eating more sweets. So, he wanted to control his habbit before advising Mark. And that was the reason for 10 days gap.

Moral of the Story :

1. Great men teach or preach what they practice
2. Chances of people hearing your words, if you practice it 100% yourself
3. People do what you do than what you say
4. Self-control is the first step towards control over many lives
   

The Cheetah and the Deer

Sam was a 9 years old boy. He loves animals. He always wished that he had extraordinary power to understand what animals speak. His uncle once said that sincere prayers are always answered by God. So, Sam started to pray everyday sincerly.

All of a sudden, on one fine day, God appeared before him. Sam was really excited. When God asked his wish, Sam said that he wanted to understand what animals speak. Sam was lucky enough to get what he wanted.

The next day, early in the morning, Sam went to the nearest forest. He saw a deer which was about to start its day. The deer prayed to God asking Him to provide enough strength and energy to run faster than it's predator, so that it can save it's life.

Then Sam moved on and found a Cheetah, which was getting ready for its day. He also saw the deer praying to God. In it's prayer, it asked God to provide enough strength and energy to run faster than it's prey, so that it can get it's food.

From the above, Sam understood the following messages and lived happily.

1. Whether you are a prey or predator you need to run.
2. And it is not enough to run, but one need to run faster
3. When you are idle, either you are killed by your predator or starve to death (if you are the predator)

The Dog and the Rabbit

This story outlines the basic difference between the efforts which make it to the results and the ones which turns to be a failure.

Sam is a 2 year old pet dog of the premises. He is very sincere in guarding the place where he is living. Sam always felt that he has all the ingredients of a successful dog.

It was a sunday morning. Sam, was about to finish his morning walk. He noticed a Rabbit (Jam), which was playing happily. Though Jam noticed Sam's presence, he continued his play. Sam got worried and wanted to threten Jam and went to catch him.

So Sam prepared himself and went running towards Jam. But Jam was smart enough to escape from him. However hard Sam tries to catch Jam, it was all in vain. Sam was trying hard enough, but nothing happened till the lunch time.

Sam went for his lunch and came back again in action to catch Jam. He tried all his tactics, energy and smart Jam could manage to escape from all. Finally, it was getting darker, and Jam gets into his hole.

Sam was upset with this. And he went near Jam's hole and asked him, Hey Jam, I'm stronger than you, taller than you, experienced than you, but still could not succeed in my efforts to catch you. I don't know the reason. Jam politely replied, but I know the answer. And he said, Sam you were running for your food and I was running for my life. That's the secret behind my success.

Moral :

1. Having enough energy, strength, resources to achieve something is not all that important
2. Having a strong reason to achieve something is more important
3. And pursue you efforts with the thinking that you are running for your life