Remind you that you're stronger than you think

A man walked along the shore and suddenly saw a boy who was lifting something from the sand and throwing it into the sea. The man came closer and saw that the boy was picking up starfish from the sand. They surrounded him on all sides. It seemed that there were millions of starfish on the sand, the coast was literally dotted with them for many kilometers. - Why are you throwing these starfish into the water? The man asked, coming closer. “If they stay on the shore until tomorrow morning, when the tide begins, they will die,” the boy replied, without stopping his occupation. - But this is just stupid! The man shouted. - Look around! There are millions of starfish here, the coast is simply littered with them. Your attempts won't change anything! - No, my attempts will change a lot ... for this star. Then the man also raised the star and threw it into the sea. Then another one. By nightfall, there were many people on the beach, each of whom raised and threw a star into the sea. And when the sun rose, not a single soul was left on the beach.

Parable: Three frogs on a log
Once the Teacher asked the students: - Three frogs were sitting on a log. One of them decided to jump into the water. How many frogs are left on the log? “Three…” one of them answered uncertainly. - Of course, three frogs, - the Teacher smiled. - Because the frog only decided to jump, but did not take any action for this. Never confuse action with making a decision. Sometimes it seems to you that you have already jumped, but in reality you are still sitting on a log. Moreover, surrounded by the same as yourself, amphibians.😇

The cocoon lay motionless for a long time without changes. But then one day a small hole appeared in the cocoon. A passing person stopped and began to observe what would happen to the cocoon. The man stood for hours and watched the butterfly trying to get out through this small gap. A long time passed, the butterfly seemed to have stopped its efforts, and the hole remained the same small. It seemed that the butterfly had done everything it could, and that it had no more strength for anything else. Then the man decided to help the butterfly: he took a penknife and cut the cocoon. The butterfly came out at once. But her body was weak and feeble, her wings were undeveloped and barely moved. The man continued to watch, thinking that the butterfly's wings were about to spread out and get stronger, and it could fly. None of this happened. The rest of its life, the butterfly dragged its weak little body on the ground, its wings not spread. She was never able to fly. And all because the person, wanting to help her, did not understand that the effort to get out through the small hole in the cocoon is necessary for the butterfly. She herself needs, having gathered all her strength, to grow, develop, get stronger, destroy the walls of the cocoon and fly. Sometimes it is the effort that we need in life. If we were allowed to live without difficulties, we would be deprived. We couldn't be as strong as we are now. We could never fly ...
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At the beginning of the lesson, the professor raised a glass with a little water. He held this glass until all the students paid attention to it, and then asked, "How much do you think this glass weighs?" "50 grams!" ... "100 grams!" ... "125 grams!" ... - the students suggested. “I don’t know myself,” the professor continued, “to find out, you need to weigh him. But the question is different: what happens if I hold the glass like this for several minutes? “Nothing,” the students answered. - Good. What happens if I hold this glass for an hour? The professor asked again. “Your arm will hurt,” one of the students replied. - So. But what if I, thus, hold the glass all day? “Your arm will become petrified, you will feel a strong tension in the muscles, and even your arm may be paralyzed, and you will have to be sent to the hospital,” the student said to the audience laughing. - Very good, - the professor continued calmly, - but has the glass's weight changed during this time? “No,” was the answer. - Then where did the pain in the shoulder and muscle tension come from? The students were surprised and discouraged. - What do I need to do to get rid of the pain? - Asked the professor. “Lower the glass,” came the answer from the audience. “Here,” the professor exclaimed, “the same happens with life's problems and failures. Keeping them in your head for a few minutes is fine. You will think about them for a long time, you will begin to experience pain. And if you continue to think about it for a long, long time, it will start to paralyze you, i.e. you cannot do anything else. It's important to think about the situation and draw conclusions, but it's even more important to let go of these issues at the end of each day, before you go to bed. And so, you can wake up fresh, alert and ready to cope with new life situations every morning without stress.
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Clever Sufi Parable of Perseverance It is known that once many people decided to dig up a treasure. They took all the necessary tools and went to look for it where it should have been buried. People spread over the territory and began excavations. Some quickly got tired, and thought that the treasure was not worth the effort. Some found pieces of shingles and sometimes thought it was a treasure. Others enjoyed their work, thinking that this was the joy of seeking and finding. Some, looking at the abundance of stones and dirt around them, lost faith, for they were weak in spirit. There were many other people who felt different things, investing time and energy into the work. Time passed, strength dried up and they became victims of delusions and fictions. Those who were persistent finally found the treasure, unlike those who engaged in arguments and chatter. Those who did not find the treasure devoted the rest of their days to finding explanations and excuses for this. Confused and deceived, they wandered from one sage to another, asking what kind of treasure it was, where it is now, and how to find it. The sages, all as one, replied that these people would not have access to any of this, until they become the same as those who succeeded in the search. But many of these words did not understand, they were sure that from the very beginning they possessed all the qualities: mind, body and spirit, sufficient for the successful completion of the search.
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Once passing by the elephants in the zoo, I suddenly stopped, surprised that such huge creatures, such as elephants, were kept in the zoo tied with a thin rope to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that elephants could easily free themselves from the rope they were tied with, but for some reason, they didn't. I went to the trainer and asked him why such majestic and beautiful animals just stand and do not try to free themselves. He replied: “When they were young and much smaller than now, we tied them with the same rope, and now that they are adults, the same rope is enough to hold them. As they grow up, they believe that this rope can hold them and they do not try to escape. " It was amazing. These animals could get rid of their "shackles" at any moment, but because they believed that they could not, they stood there forever, not trying to free themselves. Like these elephants, how many of us believe that we will not be able to do something, just because we didn’t work out once?😀😀😀

Parable about a glass

At the beginning of the lesson, the professor raised a glass with a little water. He held this glass until all the students paid attention to it, and then asked, "How much do you think this glass weighs?" "50 grams!" ... "100 grams!" ... "125 grams!" ... - the students suggested. “I don’t know myself,” the professor continued, “to find out, you need to weigh him. But the question is different: what happens if I hold the glass like this for several minutes? “Nothing,” the students answered. - Good. What happens if I hold this glass for an hour? The professor asked again. “Your arm will hurt,” one of the students replied. - So. What happens if I thus hold the glass all day? “Your arm will be petrified, you will feel a strong tension in the muscles, and even your arm may be paralyzed, and you will have to be sent to the hospital,” the student said to the audience laughing. - Very good, - the professor continued calmly, - but has the glass's weight changed during this time? “No,” was the answer. - Then where did the pain in the shoulder and muscle tension come from? The students were surprised and discouraged. - What do I need to do to get rid of the pain? - Asked the professor. “Lower the glass,” came the answer from the audience. “Here,” the professor exclaimed, “the same happens with life's problems and failures. Keeping them in your head for a few minutes is fine. You will think about them for a long time, you will begin to experience pain. And if you continue to think about it for a long, long time, it will start to paralyze you, i.e. you cannot do anything else. It is important to think about the situation and draw conclusions, but it is even more important to let go of these problems at the end of each day, before you go to bed. And so, you can wake up fresh, alert and ready to cope with new life situations every morning without stress.

One day a woman went out onto the porch of her house and saw three old men with long white beards in the yard.
"You must be hungry. Please come into the house and eat," the kind woman suggested.
“We cannot go to the house together,” they replied. “Why not?”, The hostess of the house was surprised.
One of the old men explained:
“His name is Wealth,” he said, pointing to one of his friends, “His name is Health,” he pointed to the second, “And my name is Love,” the traveler introduced himself.
Then he added: "Now go home and talk to your husband about which of us you want to see as your guest."
The woman went and told her husband what she had heard. Her husband was very happy.
“How good!” He said. "If we really have to make a choice, let's invite Wealth. Let him come in and fill our house with wealth!"
His wife objected, "Darling, why don't we invite Health?"
Their daughter was listening in the corner. She ran up to them with her proposal: "Why don't we better invite Love? After all, then love will reign in our house!"
"Let's agree with our girl," the husband said to his wife, "Go and ask Love to be our guest."
The woman went out and asked three old men: "Which one of you is Love? Come into the house and be our guest."
An old man named Lyubov went in the direction of the house. The other two old men followed him.
The surprised woman asked Wealth and Health: "I only invited Love, why are you going?"
The old men answered: "If you invited Wealth or Health, the other two of us would stay on the street, but since you invited Love, wherever it goes, we always follow it. Where there is Love, there is always Wealth and Health. ".
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Garland David Sanders is a little known name, but many people know the world fast food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken. “Colonel Sanders” - as its creator is most often called - is living proof that success can be achieved at any age and in any business, the main thing is to work hard and fruitfully to achieve the goal.

Culinary business became his life after retirement. Garland traveled across the states offering his recipe to roadside diner owners, but there was no result. Rumor has it that he received over a thousand rejections before anyone interested in his method of preparing chicken wings. Nevertheless, the ambitious colonel got his way, and now his chain of eateries has more than 16 thousand establishments in 110 countries.

Milton Hershey, the creator of the Hershey Chocolate empire, worked as a typesetter in a printing house at the dawn of his career, and later got a job at a confectionery factory, where he got acquainted with the technology of the production of sweets and chocolate. He got fired up with the idea of ​​creating sweets and decided to found his own company, but his first experience in this area was unsuccessful.

He decided to try his luck in Denver (Colorado). Having received the skills of making caramel there, the entrepreneur wanted to establish production in New York, but again suffered a fiasco - the business stubbornly did not want to make a profit.

And, to give credit to Hershey's tenacity, even repeated failure did not weaken his resolve to pursue the confectionery business. He returned to his family's farm and started looking for his unique candy recipe. Further history is already known: Hershey Milton's milk chocolate has become a bestseller in the confectionery market. The businessman opened his own factory, which brought him fabulous money and fame.

How to develop courage and confidence? Some more tips

A confident person is given out by an even posture, a sense of humor and an open look. Keep your back straight, straighten your shoulders, do not slouch, and you will feel the feelings of stiffness and shyness gradually leave you.
Joke more, don't hide your sense of humor. Laughter brings people closer together, allows them to be liberated.
Insecure people avoid looking other people in the eye while talking. If you have this habit, eradicate it.
When people around you question your abilities, don't get discouraged or withdrawn. Ask for clear answers to why they think so, and set yourself up in a positive way - you will definitely do it.
Don't look for excuses when you feel reluctant or afraid to do something new. Feel free to master new knowledge, work hard, read, meet people, travel.