During working hours, there are inevitably tension and fatigue, for there is a finished product to be made, and perhaps a programme and discipline to be respected. A joke, bit of humour may often relieve the tension of workers. The joke must however, be impersonal. It must not be directed to any worker in particular, …
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The greatest day of lists is still New Year’s Day. And the number one list is the list I call the Laws of the Lighthouse. The Laws of the Lighthouse contain more than good ideas, personal preferences, and honest opinions. They are God-given, time-tested truths that define the way you should navigate your life. Observe …
A religious teacher and his student were walking from one village to another, when they suddenly heard a roar behind them. Turning their gaze in the direction of the roar, they saw a big tiger following them. The first thing the student wanted to do was to run away, but as he had been studying …
An 80 year old man was sitting on the sofa in his house along with his 45 years old highly educated son. Suddenly a crow perched on their window. The Father asked his Son, “What is this?” The Son replied “It is a crow”. After a few minutes, the Father asked his Son the 2nd …
Many successes can be attributed to those who dream.Dreaming is a gift where you can see things not as they are, but as they could be.People who never dream, or never set goals,let life go by day by day letting others determine their destiny.Without dreams, you don’t set goals;you are forced to accept what you …
One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, so it just wasn’t worth it to try to retrieve the donkey. He …
Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the liquid from his lungs. His bed was next to the room’s only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. …
Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace and when she asked her mother if she would buy it for her, her mother said, “Well, it is a …
One stormy night many years ago, an elderly man and his wife entered the lobby of asmall hotel in Philadelphia. Trying to get out of the rain, the couple approached thefront desk hoping to get some shelter for the night. “Could you possibly give us a room here?” the husband asked. The clerk, a friendly …
A lady in a faded grey dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun suit walked in timidly without an appointment into the Harvard University President’s outer office.The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at Harvard and probably didn’t even deserve to be in Harvard.’We want to …