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From: Ramnath Devarajan <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:20:23 +0530
Subject: Fwd: FW: [iitm1970] Pls READ AND RETURN IF U DECIDE
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Dear All,
You may have read this earlier. It is worth a second reading and yet
another, just to reinforce values and strengthen conviction about virtues
of honesty and sincerity.
Regards.
Ramnath
Dear Ananthu,
I have sent the mail in acknowledgement, to you.
Thank you
Ram
23.19 Hrs
18.10.12
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Subject: FW: [iitm1970] Pls READ AND RETURN IF U DECIDE
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READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH AND SEE HOW YOU FEEL AND IF YOU DECIDE PLEASE
RETURN LIKE IT STATES.
*Interesting and very thoughtful message for all to read. *
*This is special*
*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 or his children, he decided to do
something different. He called all the young executives in his company
together.*
*He said, "It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO. 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 - one 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 Jim, was there that day and he, like the others, received a
seed. He went home and excitedly, told his wife the * *story. She helped
him get a pot, soil and compost and he planted* *the seed. Everyday, 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 Jim didn't have a plant and he felt like a failure.*
*Six months went by -- still nothing in Jim's pot. He just knew he had
killed his seed. Everyone else had trees and tall plants, but he had
nothing.*
*Jim didn't say anything to his colleagues, however, he just kept watering
and fertilizing the soil - He so wanted the seed to grow.*
*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. Jim felt sick to
his* *stomach,
it was going to be the most embarrassing moment of his life, but he knew
his wife was right. He took his empty pot to the board room.*
*When Jim arrived, he was amazed at the variety of plants grown by the
other executives. 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 Jim at the back of the room with his
empty pot. He ordered the Financial Director to bring him to the front. Jim
was terrified.. He thought, "The CEO knows I'm a failure! Maybe he will
have me fired!"*
*When Jim got to the front, the CEO asked him what had happened to his
seed, Jim told him the story.*
*The CEO asked everyone to sit down except Jim. He looked at Jim, and then
announced to the young executives, "Behold your next Chief Executive
Officer!*
*His name is "Jim!" Jim couldn't believe it. Jim couldn't even grow his
seed.*
*"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 Jim, have brought me trees and plants and flowers. When
you found that the seed would not grow, you substituted another seed for
the one I gave you. Jim was the only one with the courage and honesty to
bring me a pot with my seed in it. Therefore, he is the one who will be the
new* *Chief Executive Officer!"*
** If you plant honesty, you will reap trust *
** If you plant goodness, you will reap friends*
** If you plant humility, you will reap greatness*
** If you plant perseverance, you will reap contentment*
** If you plant consideration, you will reap perspective*
** If you plant hard work, you will reap success*
** If you plant forgiveness, you will reap reconciliation *
*So, be careful what you plant now;*
*it will determine what you will reap later. *
*Think about* *this for a minute. *
*If I happened to show up on your door step crying, would you care?*
*If I called you and asked you to pick me up* *because something happened,*
*would you come? *
*If I had one day left to live my life, would you be part of that last day?
*
*If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you give me yours? *
*This is a test to see who your real* *friends are or if you are just
someone to talk to you when they are bored.*
*Do you know what the relationship is between your two eyes?*
*They blink together, *
*they move together, *
*they cry together, *
*they see things together, *
*and they sleep together, *
*but they never see each other; *
*that's what friendship is. *
*Your aspiration is your motivation, your *
*motivation is your belief , *
*your belief is your peace, *
*your peace is your target, *
*your target is heaven,*
*and life is like hard core*
*torture without it!*
*Send this to all your good friends,*
*even me, if I am one of them.*
*See how many you get back.*
*If you get more than 3 then you really are a good mate.*
*Save the Earth. It's the only planet with chocolate!*
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