Vijay For Victory

A man once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby.

Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?”

“No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.”

The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. “Where is the damage?” he asked.

“There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

“Where are you going to install the idol?”, he asked the sculptor.

The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.

“If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, “I will know it.”

Moral of the Story : The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. “Excellence” is a drive from inside, not outside. Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction and efficiency.

Two Irish bought 2 Horses. To identify them, they cut the tail of the first horse.

The horse WITH tail is mine, and the hosre WITHOUT tail is yours. A cunning fellow cut the tail of another.

They got very confused.

This time they tie a belt to a horse. The Horse WITH belt is mine, and the hosre WITHOUT belt is yours. Another cunning fellow cut the belt of another.

They got very confused again.

First Irish told, this is the last identification… WHITE horse is mine and BLACK is yours.

A taxi passenger tapped the driver on the shoulder to ask him a question. The driver screamed, lost control of the car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the footpath, and stopped centimeters from a shop window.

For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said: “Look mate, don’t ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!”.

The passenger apologized and said, “I didn’t realize that a little tap would scare you so much.”

The driver replied, “Sorry, it’s not really your fault. Today is my first day as a cab driver – I’ve been driving a van carrying dead Bodies for the last 25 years”.

One evening a scholar was addressing the participants on the concept of work culture. One of the participants asked the following question;

“I am a senior manager of Materials Department and I joined an organization 25 years ago as an Engineer Trainee and over the last 25 years I have gone through every experience in the organization.

During the initial part of my career, the job was very challenging and interesting.

However, all those exciting days are gone since I do not find my joy any more interesting because there is nothing new in my job. I am now feeling bored because I am doing a routine job.

However, Sir, I am living in the same house for over forty years, I am the son for the same parents for over forty five years, I am the father for the same children for the past ten years and the husband for the same lady for the past twenty years !( the toughest job!)

In these personal roles I do not feel bored Please tell me why I am bored of the routine in the office and not in the house?”

The response from Scholar was very interesting and convincing. He asked the executive the question:

“Please tell me for whom does your Mother cook ?”

The executive replied that obviously the mother cooks for others.

Then the Scholar said that the mother “Serves” others and because of this service mindedness, she is not feeling tired or bored. But in an office,we “Work” and not “Serve”. Anything we consider, as service will not make us feel bored. That is difference between Serving and Working.

He asked the executive to consider his work as service and not merely a work !! This was a very interesting analysis!! Whenever you put a larger context around your work and see a broader meaning for your work, you will take interest in your work and it will make a very big difference in your internal energy.

Attitude Matters !!!

Visiting the psychiatric ward, a man asked how doctors decide to institutionalize a patient.

The director said, “Well, we fill a bathtub, then offer a teaspoon, a teacup and a bucket to the patient, and ask him to empty the tub”.

Visitor replied “I got it, a normal person would use the bucket because it’s the biggest”.

“No”, the director said.

“A normal person would pull that rubber plug that is there at the bottom of the bathtub”.

There was a man who had worked all his life, had saved all of his money, and was a real “miser” when it came to his money.

Just before he died, he said to his wife, “When I die, I want you to take all my money and put it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife with me.”

And so he got his wife to promise him, with all of her heart, that when he died, she would put all of the money into the casket with him.

Well, he died. He was stretched out in the casket, his wife was sitting there – dressed in black, and her friend was sitting next to her. When they finished the ceremony, and just before the undertakers got ready to close the casket, the wife said,”Wait just a moment!”

She had a small metal box with her; she came over with the box and put it in the casket. Then the undertakers locked the casket down and they rolled it away.

So her friend said, “Girl, I know you were not fool enough to put all that money in there with your husband.”

The loyal wife replied, “Listen, I love him very much; I wish to fulfil my husband’s last wish”. I promised him that I was going to put that money into the casket with him.

“You mean to tell me you put that money in the casket with him!?!?!?”

“Sure I did,” said the wife. “I got it all together, put it into my account, and wrote him a check…. If he can cash it, then he can spend it.”

Original Photo : Motoyen 

Here is a story to illustrate, What is effecive communication?

After the prayer, Raja and Ram are returning from the temple. Ram wonders whether it would be all right to smoke while praying.

Raja replies, “Why don’t you ask the Priest?”

So Raja goes up to the priest and asks, “Priest,may I smoke while I pray?”

But the Priest says, “No, my child, you may not. That’s utter disrespect to our religion.”

Raja goes back to his friend and tells him what the good priest told him.

Ram says, “I’m not surprised. You asked the wrong question. Let me try.”

And so Ram goes up to the Priest and asks, “Priest, may I pray while I smoke?”

To which the priest eagerly replies, “By all means, my child. By all means.”

Moral : The reply you get depends on the question you ask.

For Example : Can I work on this project while I’m on vacation ?!?