| Recap of this week’s Leader Quick Tip: If you want to be successful at anything, it helps to be hungry for it, to really want it. |
There is so much to learn. So much that can help you find the success you want!
It’s all there, waiting for you.
If you’re not seeing it, it’s because you’re not looking, at least not in the right places.
You want more, but you have to find it, and then hold onto it.
Have you forgotten what it takes to be a success?
Here’s a story about success that most cannot forget.
Glad and Sad
The H R Department had scheduled Warren for a management training program he did not want to attend. He thought he could get out of it. He discussed it with Trudy, his manager.
“What’s the problem, Warren?”
“There’s so much going on. It’s hard to find the time to go to an outside training session. I just feel like what I’m doing now has more value to the company than if I go.”
“I understand what you’re saying, Warren. I used to feel that way myself. I never went to training programs. I didn’t read management books either.”
Warren frowned. “You’re certainly not like that now. What caused you to change?”
“I heard a story.”
“A story,” Warren laughed, “you changed because of a story?”
“Yes, I did. It was about a woman in the desert. It took me a while for the story to sink in, but when it did, I found myself on the learning side of the fence. I pick up every bit of knowledge I can now.”
Warren scratched his head.
“Would you like to hear it?”
“Sure. I’d love to.”
Trudy leaned back in her chair and began.
“A traveler walking across the desert met a stranger who said, ‘Straight ahead, over that large sand dune, is an area with many small stones. Pick up as many as you want because the winds you hear now soon will cover them. But I must warn you, if you do, you will feel both glad and sad.
“The traveler continued her journey and late in the day came to the flat, sandy area with the small stones. Although she was in a hurry and her mind was occupied with many things, she stopped, bent over, and picked up as many stones as were easily within her reach. Then she walked on as the wind howled and whipped the hot desert air across her body.
“Days later she remembered the stones, reached into her pocket, and pulled them out. In the brightness of the mid-day sun she looked at them and realized they were diamonds. Immediately, she remembered what the stranger had said, ‘If you pick up the stones, you will be both glad and sad.’
“And she was. Glad she had picked up as many as she did, sad she hadn’t gotten more.”
A smile came on Warren’s face. “That’s an interesting story. Do the diamonds represent . . .”
Trudy quickly held her hand up and stopped him. “Warren, you’ll get more out of the story if you mull over it for a while. Take your time and think about it, okay?”
“Okay.”
“And Warren, about that training program . . .”
“You’ve convinced me. I’ll go.”
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