Mon 10 Aug 2009
Who Are You Listening Too?
Posted by cwalston under Inspiring Articles, Personal Insights
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In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.
- Albert Schweitzer
How often do we think about the words we speak to ourselves and other’s around us? Our words have power and they impact our lives in a negative or positive way. We get so caught up in the rhetoric of speaking the truth, that we don’t’ realize what’s truth for one person, may not be truth to another and especially how to speak the truth.
Some of you may remember this old story about a group of frogs, who went leaping through the forest one day when two of the frogs suddenly fell into a deep pit. All of the other frogs gathered around the hole to look down on their two fallen friends. They all began to sadly shake their heads and to croak out dismal warnings. “It’s too deep!” croaked one frog. Another croaked that there was no way that they would ever be able to get out of that pit alive.
The two fallen frogs began to continuously jump as they tried to get out of the pit, but the frogs that were watching kept croaking louder at them that they might as well stop because they were as good as dead and just wasting their time. One of the two frogs finally gave up and heeded the pessimistic advice of the frogs at the top. He quit jumping and literally “croaked” and died.
However, the other frog leaped even harder than ever and to the surprise of all the other frogs he jumped right out of the deep pit. The other frogs asked him, “Why did you keep leaping even though we yelled and croaked at you to stop?” It was then that the frog explained to them that he was deaf and he had thought they were cheering for him and yelling words of encouragement to him the entire time!
The moral of the story is…sometimes you have to turn a “deaf’s ear” to the people who don’t believe in you or support you in what you are striving to achieve. Believe in yourself and take a leap of faith.
Story source: www.themotivationdoctor.com
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