Friday, April 15, 2011

Sand & Stone


   A story tells that two friends

 were walking

 through the desert

 During some point of the

 Journey they had an

 Argument, and one friend

 Slapped the other one

 In the face.

 The one who got slapped

 was hurt, but without

 saying anything,

 wrote in the sand:

 TODAY MY BEST FRIEND

 SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE . 
           

                                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                

 They kept on walking

 until they found an oasis,

 where they decided

 to take a bath.

 The one who had been

 slapped got stuck in the

 mire and started drowning,

 but the friend saved him.

 After he recovered from

 the near drowning,

 he wrote on a stone:

 TODAY MY BEST FRIEND

 SAVED MY LIFE. 
            
     

 
 The friend who had slapped

 and saved his best friend

 asked him, "After I hurt you,

 you wrote in the sand and now,

 you write on a stone, why?"

 The other friend replied

 "When someone hurts us

 we should write it down

 in sand where winds of

 forgiveness can erase it away.

 But, when someone does

 something good for us,

 we must engrave it in stone

 where no wind

 can ever erase it." 
               
    

 
LEARN TO WRITE

 YOUR HURTS IN

 THE SAND AND TO

 CARVE YOUR 

 BENEFITS IN STONE!!!

 They say it takes a

 minute to find a special

 person, an hour to

 appreciate them, a day

 to love them, but then

 an entire life

 to forget them. 
         

 Do not value the THINGS

 you have in your life. But value

 WHO you have in your life! 
          
Happiness is not something you find, it's something you create…"    
'Life Is Too Short To Waste Time Hating Anyone'.




Simple Solutions

One of the most memorable case studies on Japanese management was the  case  of the  empty  soap  box,  which  happened  in  one  of  Japan's  biggest  cosmetics companies.  The  company  received  a complaint that a consumer had bought a soap box that was empty.
 
Immediately the authorities isolated the problem to the assembly line, which  transported all  the  packaged  boxes  of  soap  to  the  delivery department.  For  some  reason,  one soap  box  went  through  the assembly line empty.
   
Management  asked  its  engineers  to  solve  the  problem.  Post-haste, the  engineers worked  hard  to  devise  an  X-ray  machine  with  high- resolution  monitors  manned  by two  people  to  watch  all  the  soap boxes that passed through the line to make sure they were not empty.
   
No  doubt,  they  worked  hard  and  they  worked  fast  but  they  spent whoopee amount to do so. But when a workman was posed with the same problem, did not get into complications  of  X-rays,  etc  but  instead came  out  with  another solution.
 
He  bought  a  strong  industrial  electric  fan  and  pointed  it  at  the assembly line. He switched the fan on, and as each soap box passed the fan, it simply blew the empty boxes out of the line.
   
Moral of the story:
 Always look for simple solutions. Devise the simplest possible solution that solves the problem. So, learn to focus on solutions not on problems. "If you look at what you do not have in life, you don't have anything; if you look at what you have in life, you have everything.