THE SEED…A GOOD STORY!
This was recently sent to me from one of my students and it reminded me of when I first came across this brilliant story approximately four years ago.
At the end of the day, I’m noticing more and more people sharing with me these days that life is too short… and I agree, however what my definition is compared to theirs may differ… see mine is a strong heart belief that I will live to at least healthy 120 yrs plus… it’s important at times like these to slow our game down and really appreciate what do we really want to achieve. The most influencing human states-emotions are FEAR & GREED. To expect different outcomes you must behave differently YES… YES.
Well, keep focusing on the fundamentals in all successful transactions and relationships; and you may ask what are they George? Ethics and Integrity… eventually they will rise above everything else. Time is a beautiful measure of reality and factual compared to potential or misguided agenda’s. I can spend the whole day on this alone in the meantime read the whole story so you can appreciate the overall message.
THE SEED - A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to choose a successor to take over the business.
Instead of choosing one of his directors and/or his children, he decided to do something different.
He called all the young executives in his company together.
“It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO,” he said. ”I have decided to choose one of you.”
The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued.
”I am going to give each one of you a seed today - a very special seed… I want you to plant the seed, water it, and come back here one year from today with what you have grown from the seed I have given you. I will then judge the plants that you bring, and the one I choose will be the next CEO.”
One man, named
Every day, he would water it and watch to see if it had grown. After about three weeks, some of the other executives began to talk about their seeds and the plants that were beginning to grow. Jim kept checking his seed, but nothing ever grew.
Three weeks, four weeks, five weeks went by, still nothing.
By now, others were talking about their plants, but
Six months went by - still nothing in
Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had
nothing.
A year finally went by and all the young executives of the company brought their plants to the CEO for inspection. Jim told his wife that he wasn’t going to take an empty pot. But she asked him to be honest about what happened.
They were beautiful in all shapes and sizes. Jim put his empty pot on the floor and many of his colleagues laughed. A few felt sorry for him!
When the CEO arrived, he surveyed the room and greeted his young executives. Jim just tried to hide in the back.
“My, what great plants, trees, and flowers you have grown,” said the CEO.
“Today one of you will be appointed the next CEO!”
All of a sudden, the CEO spotted
When
The CEO asked everyone to sit down except
How could he be the new CEO the others said?
Then the CEO said, “One year ago today, I gave everyone in this room a seed.
I told you to take the seed, plant it, water it, and bring it back to me today. But I gave you all boiled seeds; they were dead - it was not possible for them to grow.
All of you, except
Moral:
If we plant honesty, we will reap trust
If we plant goodness, we will reap friends.
If we plant humility, we will reap greatness.
If we plant perseverance, we will reap contentment.
If we plant consideration, we will reap perspective.
If we plant hard work, we will reap success.
If we plant forgiveness, we will reap reconciliation.
So, we have to be careful of what we plant now; it will determine what we will reap later.
Yours with Ethics and Passion
George Mihos
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