Apr 22 2009
Remember Jack and the beanstalk?
In the fairy tale, Jack and his mother were on the
verge of starvation when Jack decided to trade
their equally famished cow for a bunch of ‘magic
beans’.
Jack’s mother was so furious that she simply threw
the ‘magic beans’ out the window not knowing that
the beanstalk that would grow out of them beans will
be their ticket to riches [...]
Feb 6 2009
Mission: Impossible
In that movie “Men of Honor” with Cuba Gooding Jr.
and Robert De Niro, Cuba’s character was asked what
made him so determined to succeed in anything he set
his mind to, and he said, “Because they told me I
couldn’t have it…”
That perhaps is the kind of character we need to
be cultivating in ourselves.
When things just seem out [...]
