Vijay For Victory

A disappointed salesman of a famous soft drinks company returns from his Middle East assignment.
A friend asked, “Why weren’t you successful with the Arabs?”
The salesman explained, “When I got posted in the Middle East, I was very confident that I will make a good sales pitch as my company soft drink is virtually unknown there. But, I had a problem. I didn’t know to speak Arabic. So, I planned to convey the message through 3 posters.
First poster, a man is crawling through the hot desert sand; totally exhausted and panting. Second, the man is drinking our brand soft drinks and the third, our man is now totally refreshed. Then these posters were pasted all over the place”.

“That should have worked,” said the friend.

The salesman replied, “Well, It is not only the fact that I don’t speak Arabic, but also I didn’t realize that Arabs read from right to left.”

Success formula may differ with different people and different places.

There was a man who worked for the railroad. One day as he went into the freezer compartment to do his routine work, the door accidentally closed and he found himself trapped in the compartment.

He shouted for help but no one heard him since it was past midnight. He tried to break down the door but he could not.

As he lay in the freezer compartment, he began to feel colder, and colder. Then he began to feel weaker, and weaker, and he wrote on the wall of the compartment, “I am feeling colder, and colder; and I am getting weaker, and weaker. I am dying, and this may be my last words”.

In the morning when the other workers opened up the compartment they found him dead.

The sad twist to the above story is that the freezing apparatus in the compartment had broken down a few days earlier. The poor worker did not know about the damaged freezing apparatus and in his mind the freezing apparatus was working perfectly. He felt cold, got weaker and literally willed himself to die.

Moral of the story is,
You can handle anything if you think you can. Just THINK POSITIVE.