Let's Learn The Bear

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A big bear is waiting patiently all day in the rushing river. When it was not season the fish. Since the morning he was standing there trying to grab the fish jumped out of water. However, no one is a successful fish he caught.

After repeated attempts, finally ... hup ... he can catch a small fish. Fish caught were screaming with fear. The small fish in the bear cried, "O bear, please let me."

"Why," asked the bear.

"Do not you see, I was too small, could even slip through the cracks in your teeth," groaned the fish.

"So what?" asked the bear again.

"Put it this way, please return me to the river. After a few months I will grow into a big fish. At that time you could catch and eat to satisfy your appetite," says fish.

"O fish, you know why I could grow so big?" asked the bear.

"Why?" fish countered, shaking his head head.

"Because I never gave up even the slightest luck that had clutched in his hand!" bear replied, smiling confidently.

"Ops!" cried the fish, almost choked.

In life, we are given many choices and opportunities. But if we do not want to open our hearts and eyes to see and accept the opportunity that God has given it the chance it will go away. And this will only create nothing to regret later on, when we should be saying: "Ohhh .... I wish I had not had the chance menyia2kan ...?"

So wise in life, appreciate every detail of a chance in our lives. In tough times, there's always an opportunity to improve the situation; in the sad, there's always a chance to regain happiness; in the fall there is always a chance to bounce back, and the opportunity to achieve the best return for our lives.

If we are faithful in small matters, we will get a big case. When we appreciate a small chance, then he will be a great opportunity.

Clouds

In a place far away from the city, was a young man rushed into a small mosque. His face showed anxiety and uncertainty. He is like looking for something in the mosque.

"Assalam Alaikum, Teacher!" he said to an old man who looks busy sweeping the room mosque. Spontaneous, the old man to stop busy. He turned to the boy and his smile was expanding. "Wa'alaikumussalam. My son. Come in!" he said, putting a broom in the corner. After that, he and his guests sat cross-legged.

"What, my son?" he said with a smile that was too furl. "Teacher. I accepted employment in the city!" said the boy later. "Thank God," said the grandfather happy. "Teacher, if you do not mind, give me advice to succeed!" said the young man, looking down. Saying he was waiting for his grandfather before him.

"My son. Be like water. And do not follow the trail of clouds," a string of short sentences glide quietly from the mouth of the grandfather. The boy had not reacted. He thought hard as word meaning teacher. But, to no avail. "I mean, Professor?" he said later.

"My son. Water teaches us to always humble. Despite coming from a high place, he always wanted to go down. The bigger, more numerous; water so excited to move down. He was always looking for gaps to be coursing beneath the world," certainly the grandfather quietly. "Then with the clouds, Teacher?" asked the boy wonder.

"Do not even like clouds, my son. Look! Clouds come from low places, but wanted to quickly be in high places. The lighter, the more he is not weighted; cloud rose more anxious," explained the grandfather was so wise. "But my son," he added later. "The height of the cloud was just a game material wind." And the young man seemed to nod slowly.
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One thousand one hope is often addressed for the good activists. They are hoping is the weak who need protection, the poor who want help, and lay people who desire guidance.

Arrangement hope it leads to one point: that good quality good activists not just stop at the person of the perpetrator. But, can flow to the bottom: wet basin hope that increasingly dry, and turn green seeds that begin to turn yellow.

Unfortunately, not all the good quality of activists such as the water is always flowing and the constant flow of fresh life below. Because there are some people who just the opposite, like a cloud of the earth farther away. As if anyone wants they express: good-bye to the underworld; sorry, we were busy chatting with the wind. (mnuh / eramuslim)

Scientists with the White Rat

A scientist was testing the potential and power of the white rat. Every morning he took out a selection of white mice from their cages and put into a machine full glass of water. Scientists had noticed how the rat was struggling to stay alive.

If the mouse is visible already lost power and began to sink to the bottom of the water, so he immediately gave his right hand and lifted the rat. He was always full record of all developments during the week. Of note is known that the strength and endurance in the water rats increased from day to day.

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On the eighth day, he again tested the strength and endurance of mice. But not long ago he heard his cell phone rang. He talked long enough to call someone on the other side of none other than his own girlfriend. While struggling rats in the water is not intentionally trying harder because the scientists thought would help him. But the unfortunate, the rat was actually drowned because scientists are too busy talking to his girlfriend.

Who killed the rat? The answer is the mouse's own mind. Scientifically based progress notes the resilience and the ability of the mice, scientists were assessing the rat should be able to last longer. But because the mouse is already only expect help that never came, so he died.

Message:
The rat was not drowned because he could not swim. It was mentioned that the capacity and resilience of the rat is good enough even increased from day to day. The problem is that he was not willing to fight for his life, and only rely on help from others is the scientist.

The story is inspiring that every level of progress or success of one is always preceded by a challenge. If we
been able to conquer these challenges, its own strengths and accomplishments of our more advanced level. So that our success lies in how much our will to conquer these challenges, because God Almighty has given us two hands so that we can help ourselves.

Not change it if we want to succeed, then we must be willing to improve themselves and persistent effort. "Victory belongs to the most Persevering. Glory belongs to those who persevere," said Napoleon Bonaparte, the former ruler of France who lived in the year 1769 until tahun1821. Because of our state will never be better to rely on help from others.

So Stop Glasses

A Sufi teacher when a student came to her face lately always seem depressed. "Why are you always sad, son? Not many beautiful things in this world? Where are you thankful face?" The Teacher asked.

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"Teacher, lately my life full of problems. It's hard for me to smile. The problem comes as no end," replied the young student.
The Master chuckled. "Son, take a glass of water and two handfuls of salt. Bring here. Let's fix your mood."
The students also went quietly without enthusiasm. He carried out his teacher's request, then back again with glasses and salt as requested.
"Just take a handful of salt, and put into a glass of water," said the teacher. "After that let you drink a little water." The student did. Her face had a grimace because drink salt water. "How does it feel?" asked the teacher. "Asin, and my stomach was sick," replied the student, his face still grinning. Teacher chuckled see the grinning faces keasinan pupil. "Now you come with me." The Teacher brings students into the lake near where they were. "Take the remaining salt, and scatter into the lake." The disciples spread the remaining handful of salt into the lake, without speaking. Salty taste in the mouth has not disappeared. He wants to spit out the salty taste of his mouth, but she did not commit. It is hardly polite in front of his teacher spit, so he thought. "Now, let you drink the lake water," said the teacher looking for a fairly flat stones for the occupation, right on the edge of the lake. The students clapped his hands, take the water of the lake, and took it to his mouth and gulped it down. When cold water lakes and fresh flowing in his throat, the teacher asked him, "How does it feel?" "Fresh, very fresh," said the student as he wiped his lips with the back of his hand. Of course, the lake is derived from the flow of water source up there. And the water flows into the creek below. And certainly, this lake water also removes the remaining salty taste in his mouth. "Terasakah taste of salt that you scatter that?" "Not at all," said the student, taking water and drink it again. The teacher just smiled at it, let the students were drinking water until satisfied. "Son," said the teacher after the students finished drinking. "All problems in life are like a handful of salt. No more, no less. Only a handful of salt. The many problems and suffering experienced throughout your life haruskau was dikadar by God, according to you. There remains, So much, So much alone, no less, and not increased. Every human being is born into this world too. Not a single man, although he was a prophet, that is free from suffering and problems. "The student was silent, listening. "But boy,` salty taste 'of suffering depends on the size of' the heart '(heart) that hold it. So dear, so do not feel pain, stop for a glass. Make the heart in your chest is so for the lake. " (From: Suluk - Blogsome)

Precious Stones

Once, at a trade school, a professor of the subjects were told about the social economy. In front of the class, carefully the teacher placed a glass jar on the table. Followed by gaze with his students, he took out a bag full of rocks and put one by one into the jar until no more stones can be added again. After doing so, the teacher asked his students, "Boys, if this jar full?" "Yes!" they chorused.

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Smiling, the teacher grabbed his bag from under his desk that contains pebbles. He then poured the pebbles were shaking the jar to fill the gaps between the stones that have been there earlier in the jar. For the second time, he asked his students, "Now, if this jar full?" "No!" They answered questions after knowing the direction of the teacher.

This time they answer correctly. The teacher took the bag of fine sand. He was then poured into the soft sand in the jar to fill the gaps between large stones and pebbles that have been previously entered. Again he asked, "Well, this is now the jar is full?" "Maybe a full, may also have full sir. All know the answer just a father," replied the student.

The answer was to make the teacher smile. He then took out a pitcher of water and pour into the jar until the water filled the surface of the pot and put toples.Dia look around the classroom. "So, from these things, whether that be a lesson you learned?" "No matter how crowded the schedule of our activities, always be able to add something to it," said a student because he felt were following the commercial class.

"Not just that! The show here is to put big rocks first, followed by gravel and sand, and finally water, the way it can make the most of your filled jars. That is, this is a lesson about priorities. Do you understand ? " call the teacher. The students were simultaneously nodding his head, a sign of an answer and a satisfactory lessons.

Dear reader,
The notion of priorities is essential. Because, sometimes we do work with results that are not optimal, simply because we did not consider carefully where the work is important and urgent to be done first. If we are able to select and sort or prioritize jobs with an important job priority and urgent, then, what we do will be able to run more effective and efficient. That way, the results achieved will be more leverage.

That is the essence of the notion of priority. Quite simple, but it takes practice after practice, in practice the work or activity in our lives everyday. So, let us achieve success by building habits to determine the scale of priorities in all activities we do.

Salam Extraordinary Success!

Andrie Wongso