One Wish . . .
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Recently I was talking to my brother about the one wish God granted King Solomon in the Bible.
God told Solomon that he could have anything he wanted just by asking, but he had only ONE wish.
My brother and I discussed with each other what that one wish would be if we were allowed one.
Everything we came up with had some problem.
We knew that money and power were not the thing to ask for because the rich fill the office of psychiatrists and many take pills every day for depression. Money just wasn't the answer.
We knew that revenge upon someone for something they did was not a good choice because what goes around comes around.
So we started thinking about higher things like knowledge and wisdom.
We thought about it.
We had studied religion, science, business and health all of our lives and there was a list of things that we knew we should be doing but weren't. We needed greater discipline more than greater knowledge and wisdom.
I said, "Maybe what we need is the ability to program ourselves like computers to do those things that we know are right." When we thought about this request it brought to mind a robot, for it does only what it is programmed to do but it has no will to do otherwise and experiences neither pain nor joy.
Then we discussed spiritual gifts.
"What about the gift of prophecy?" I asked. This would help people know what path to take in life. Then we thought, if a man could see the future of anyone's life without error, that man would have no privacy. Everywhere he went people would be trying to find him, even at three in morning his phone would ring with
people asking the question, "Can you see if my child is coming back home tonight?"
Even the ability to raise the dead has problems. Imagine if any corpse you prayed over would miraculously resuscitate to life. Anytime someone died people would call you or hunt you down for you to come and bring their loved one back to them.
Or what about just the ability to heal the sick without fail? If you had this, your peace would be lost to lines miles long from one hospital to the next waiting on a touch from you.
The answer to one simple wish contains a lot of information about the asker. It tells a lot about where you are and where you are going. After we discussed it long enough, we realized we had already been blessed with everything we needed. That which we didn't have, we had the ability to get.
The revelation that came to us was that what people really want the most is that which they spend most of their time trying to get.
If you only had one wish, what would you ask for?
What do you spend most of your time trying to get now?
~A MountainWings Original by James Bronner~
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Monday, January 31, 2011
THE JANITOR - A MountainWIngs Moment By: Unknown
The Janitor
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An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor.
The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning).
After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day."
Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed."
Stunned, the man leaves.
Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that
night. And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.
Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly. After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade
it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business.
By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.
When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned. "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce?
Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the internet from the very start!"
After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied,
"Why, of course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"
~Author Unknown~
The MountainWings moral of the story:
1. The Internet, e-mail, and e-commerce do not need to rule or determine your life.
2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3. There are much greater connections than the Internet.
4. E-mail addresses are free, and companies are begging you to take one. What does that tell you?
5. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, are you closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire?
If the answer is janitor, then e-mail is obviously not the key to money.
6. If you take what you have, and multiply it each day, not only will you become a millionaire, you will also become a billionaire. That equation works for all things in life.
7. It is far better to be a happy janitor than an unhappy millionaire, but all other things being equal, it is better to
be a happy millionaire than a happy janitor. You can help more people.
8. Closed doors are often blocks to the wrong path.
9. Unbeknown to most, the janitor in many corporations, is actually happier and sleeps better than the CEO.
10. It's really not the job that's the bottom line to your happiness.
REALLY!
~A MountainWings Original Moral~
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An unemployed man goes to apply for a job with Microsoft as a janitor.
The manager there arranges for him to take an aptitude test (Section: Floors, sweeping and cleaning).
After the test, the manager says, "You will be employed at minimum wage, $5.15 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so that I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work on your first day."
Taken aback, the man protests that he has neither a computer nor an e-mail address. To this the MS manager replies, "Well, then, that means that you virtually don't exist and can therefore hardly expect to be employed."
Stunned, the man leaves.
Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet, he decides to buy a 25 lb flat of tomatoes at the supermarket. Within less than 2 hours, he sells all the tomatoes individually at 100% profit. Repeating the process several times more that day, he ends up with almost $100 before going to sleep that
night. And thus it dawns on him that he could quite easily make a living selling tomatoes.
Getting up early every day and going to bed late, he multiplies his profits quickly. After a short time he acquires a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade
it in again so that he can buy a pick-up truck to support his expanding business.
By the end of the second year, he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks and manages a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes.
Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decides to buy some life insurance. Consulting with an insurance adviser, he picks an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asks him for his e-mail address in order to send the final documents electronically.
When the man replies that he has no e-mail, the adviser is stunned. "What, you don't have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce?
Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the internet from the very start!"
After a moment of thought, the tomato millionaire replied,
"Why, of course! I would be a floor cleaner at Microsoft!"
~Author Unknown~
The MountainWings moral of the story:
1. The Internet, e-mail, and e-commerce do not need to rule or determine your life.
2. If you don't have e-mail, but work hard, you can still become a millionaire.
3. There are much greater connections than the Internet.
4. E-mail addresses are free, and companies are begging you to take one. What does that tell you?
5. Seeing that you got this story via e-mail, are you closer to becoming a janitor than you are to becoming a millionaire?
If the answer is janitor, then e-mail is obviously not the key to money.
6. If you take what you have, and multiply it each day, not only will you become a millionaire, you will also become a billionaire. That equation works for all things in life.
7. It is far better to be a happy janitor than an unhappy millionaire, but all other things being equal, it is better to
be a happy millionaire than a happy janitor. You can help more people.
8. Closed doors are often blocks to the wrong path.
9. Unbeknown to most, the janitor in many corporations, is actually happier and sleeps better than the CEO.
10. It's really not the job that's the bottom line to your happiness.
REALLY!
~A MountainWings Original Moral~
Monday, January 10, 2011
THE BIG LOTTERY WINNER- A MountainWings Moment
The Big Lottery Winner
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How would you feel if you won the lottery?
I mean a really big one, like 100 million or so?
Pretty good huh?
That's what I thought.
If you won 100 million that would undoubtedly make your day.
It won't make your life; but I will admit, it will do a pretty good job of making your day.
It would be hard to convince anyone that you weren't very fortunate if you won a big lottery.
Which prize is greater: money or life?
Do you know how many sperm are released from the average male during the act of procreation?
Approximately 300 million sperm are released. Only one fertilizes the egg. Each sperm will produce a different person with different characteristics.
300 million sperm compete in a race to fertilize the egg.
The one that wins makes the baby.
You won.
Out of 300 million, you won.
You got life.
The lottery has odds of around fifty something million to one. You won a race with odds of 300 million to one.
You won a greater prize than money in a race with greater odds than the lottery.
You won life.
Studies have shown that most big lottery winners aren't as happy five years later. I have a friend who knew two people who won over 50 million dollar lotteries. I asked my friend, were your friends happier before they won or now?
My friend paused in deep thought as they compared in their minds their friends before and after their big win.
"They were happier before they won," my friend replied.
I know countless who have won the prize of life.
Unfortunately, they, like the big lottery winners, often end up sad.
The thing about life. . .Not only did you win the initial race, each morning that you wake up you've won again.
Don't be like the typical big lottery winner.
Celebrate the win.
Celebrate the day.
Recognize the prize.
Each day.
~A MountainWings Original~
======================
How would you feel if you won the lottery?
I mean a really big one, like 100 million or so?
Pretty good huh?
That's what I thought.
If you won 100 million that would undoubtedly make your day.
It won't make your life; but I will admit, it will do a pretty good job of making your day.
It would be hard to convince anyone that you weren't very fortunate if you won a big lottery.
Which prize is greater: money or life?
Do you know how many sperm are released from the average male during the act of procreation?
Approximately 300 million sperm are released. Only one fertilizes the egg. Each sperm will produce a different person with different characteristics.
300 million sperm compete in a race to fertilize the egg.
The one that wins makes the baby.
You won.
Out of 300 million, you won.
You got life.
The lottery has odds of around fifty something million to one. You won a race with odds of 300 million to one.
You won a greater prize than money in a race with greater odds than the lottery.
You won life.
Studies have shown that most big lottery winners aren't as happy five years later. I have a friend who knew two people who won over 50 million dollar lotteries. I asked my friend, were your friends happier before they won or now?
My friend paused in deep thought as they compared in their minds their friends before and after their big win.
"They were happier before they won," my friend replied.
I know countless who have won the prize of life.
Unfortunately, they, like the big lottery winners, often end up sad.
The thing about life. . .Not only did you win the initial race, each morning that you wake up you've won again.
Don't be like the typical big lottery winner.
Celebrate the win.
Celebrate the day.
Recognize the prize.
Each day.
~A MountainWings Original~
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