Email isn’t a productivity killer unless…

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As with every other productivity tool, what really matters with email is how you use it. If email is draining your work productivity, it’s probably because you’re doing one or more of these:

you make it the aim of your workday to achieve Zero-Inbox status.

Let’s face it: the more email you send, the more you’ll receive. Set aside some time daily to respond to selective emails that are urgent and important. Mark the rest for

later follow up.

1. 
   you believe email is real-time.
   
   It isn’t. And doesn’t need to be instantly responded to. If you need
   
   (and only if you need!)
   
   to initiate a real-time conversation, use IM, or make a phone call. Or even better, make it a face-to-face conversation, if that’s possible.
2. 
   you believe in the ‘a folder for every email and every email into a folder’ rule.
   
   Heard of
   
   Email OCD? If you’re spending a lot of time just moving your mail into folders, you’re wasting valuable time that could be spent on other important tasks. Instead,
   
   make automated rules for emails that absolutely must be organized into folders. Leave the rest in your inbox.
3. 
   you need to hunt for emails manually, one folder at a time.
   
   Every time you have to look for that all-important email that suddenly needs to be referred to,
   
   use an advanced search feature to fish it out. Not only will this save you search time, it will minimize your dependency on folder-organization too (see the point above)
4. 
   you use the ‘reply-all’ function for every email.
   
   Before you use ‘reply-all’ and reply to everyone who is marked on an email, think about whether your reply will be relevant and / useful for all the intended recipients. If not, mark the email to only those who will benefit from reading it. It’s good email etiquette and saves everybody (including you!) a whole lot of time.
5. 
   you use email for debates and discussions.
   
   A more productive way to encourage ideas, discussions and brainstorms within your team(s) and / customers is to use an internal discussion forum. At Zoho, we use
   
   Zoho Discussions for all such ”discussions”.
6. 
   you only send / check your email at the desk.
   
   Being able to check email on your mobile device is a necessary evil. You can spend time outside your office, meeting your customers and prospects, and yet, still find time to
   
   check email while you’re on the move. Remember to do this judiciously though, for not all email needs to be read / responded to.
7. 
   you check email during face-to face / telephonic interactions with people.
   
   Avoid doing this at all costs. For one, it’s rude. Also, you miss out on important conversations and the chance to make an impact on your audience.

Are there any other email-productivity-killing-habits that you can add to this list? Which email habit are you going to change today?

Gold & Silver…. start buying…

 By Subhankar

The sharp corrections seen on gold and silver chart patterns appear to be over, and the bull rallies are all set to resume. Gold’s price never dropped below the 200 day SMA, so technically it was just a bull market correction following a double-top reversal pattern. Silver’s price dropped below the 200 day SMA and has stayed below the long-term moving average for more than a month, raising the spectre of a bear market. However, there are signs of revival of late.

Gold Chart Pattern

Gold’s price is trading above its 14 day, 30 day, 60 day and 200 day SMAs, and all four moving averages are rising – which is the sign of a bull market. More importantly, the price has climbed above the 1750 level – the ‘valley’ level between the two tops at 1900.

Note that the 1750 level acted as a resistance during the recent up move, and once the resistance was overcome, the resistance level has turned into a support level. Gold’s price should start moving up towards its previous top of 1900, and eventually test and overcome the 1900 level to touch a new high.

A satisfactory resolution of the Eurozone debt problems may cause a renewed interest in risky assets and slow down the up move in gold’s price. But the bull market in gold is very much alive, and price dips can be used to add.

Silver Chart Pattern

Silver’s price is on a gradual recovery path, though it is still trading below the 200 day SMA. The fact that the white metal is trading above its 14 day and 30 day SMAs, and the 200 day SMA has started rising again point to a revival of interest in buying silver.

Intrepid investors can start accumulating slowly at current prices. The more prudent action will be to wait for a convincing cross above the 200 day SMA before buying. As with all purchases, a strict stop-loss should be maintained – say, at 32.

How a Financial Pro Lost His House

Carl Richards’s book, “The Behavior Gap:  Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things With Money,” will be released on Jan.  3.

ONE night a few years ago, when the value of our home had collapsed, our debt was out of control and my financial planning business was shaky, I went to take out the trash.

There was this enormous window that looked right in on the kitchen table, and through it I could see my wife, Cori, and our four children eating dinner. It was dark outside, so they couldn’t see me, and I just stood there looking at them.

After a while, I pulled up a bucket and I sat on it, just watching my children eat. I found myself wishing that I could get back there, connected to the simple ordinary stuff of my family’s life. And as I sat and watched, filled with longing and guilt, two questions kept arising:

How did I get here?

And how am I going to get out of this?

There are many stories these days of people who lost their financial bearings during the housing boom and the crisis that followed, but my story is a bit different from most.

I’m a financial adviser. I get paid to help people make smart financial choices, and I speak and write about personal finance issues for this publication and others. My first book comes out in January, “The Behavior Gap: Simple Ways to Stop Doing Dumb Things With Money” (Portfolio, a Penguin imprint).

The thing that few people know, though, is that I learned a lot of this from experience. I made a bunch of mistakes, the very same ones that I now go around warning people to avoid.

So this is the story of how I lost my home, the profound ethical questions that arose along the way, and what my wife and I learned from the mistakes that led us to that point. It made me better at what I do, but it wasn’t much fun getting there.

Like most financial stories, this one is personal. It starts with me getting into the financial services industry more or less by accident. I answered an ad in 1995 that I thought was for a job related to “security” (as in security guard) but was in fact related to “securities.” That’s how little I knew about the stock market. A few months later I found myself working a phone at a Fidelity Investments call center.

Things went well, and by 1999 I was a Merrill Lynch financial adviser and a certified financial planner. By then, we also owned a house in Salt Lake City. We’d bought it two years earlier, with a $25,000 down payment.

A few years later, an opportunity arose to form a partnership with a successful Merrill adviser in Las Vegas. The place was on our top 10 list of never-move-to cities because we had always associated it with the Strip. But Cori and I were looking for an opportunity to have an experience somewhere else, and we met some great people when we visited the city. I took the job, and we moved down there.

That was May 2003. Housing prices were already crazy, so we rented. But our neighborhood had zero character and lots of cookie-cutter houses. Within a few weeks, we were looking for a place to buy.

I felt we could afford around $350,000. We called a real estate agent named Mitch, who had signs on all the bus stops: Talk to Mitch! He picked us up in a gold Jaguar, and suddenly we were looking at houses that listed at $500,000 or more.

It felt a little crazy to be shopping for houses that cost half a million dollars, but my income was growing rapidly. Everywhere I looked, people were being rewarded for buying as much house as they could possibly afford, and then some. There was this excitement in the air, almost like static. I started to think that if I didn’t buy a house right then, I would never be able to afford one.

At moments during our house hunt, I felt in my gut that something wasn’t right. We’d go to open houses for $400,000 homes and see lines of couples in their late 20s — younger than we were — waiting to get inside. I kept wondering where all the money was coming from. How did all these people make so much?

But prices just kept rising, and when people kept buying, that made it seem safer. I knew from my work as a financial adviser that following the crowd could be costly. But like everyone else, I felt safer in a crowd.

We didn’t find anything we liked with Mitch, but one day in September 2003 Cori spotted a for-sale-by-owner sign in a really nice neighborhood. We ended up buying the house and paid the asking price of $575,000. (When we tried to negotiate on price, the owners were amused; it just wasn’t that kind of market.)

We borrowed 100 percent of the purchase price. In fact, I was told I could borrow even more if I wanted. I had perfect credit and a solid income that was growing. But even so, when the lender approved us at 100 percent, it was more than I had expected. I remember thinking something like “Wow. I guess if they’re willing to lend it to us it must be O.K.”

I should have known better. No matter how well things are going, borrowing 100 percent of the purchase price of a home is not a good idea. I shouldn’t have relied on someone else to make that calculation, let alone the guy who was making money putting me in the loan. I was a financial adviser, and I never sat down to figure out what it would take to make this work. I just wanted to believe him. And it was so easy to believe he had been right, at least at first. We loved living there. The children went to an awesome public school, and we made some great friends. I could ride my bike to Red Rocks, the wilderness area outside of town. And for a time, the real estate market erased any doubt I may have had. It just kept going up.

One evening in 2006 comes to mind. My sister-in-law was thinking of moving to Las Vegas, and a real estate agent told me about an open house for a new Toll Brothers community. This wasn’t a come-by-for-cookies type of open house; it was held at a Las Vegas hotel ballroom. I arrived to find a line that led down a flight of stairs and out of the front door. Before I got to the front of the line, they stopped admitting people. Then people rushed the door, like it was a rock concert.

The market’s continued strength meant we could borrow even more. It was easy. In late 2004, a year after buying the house, we refinanced our mortgage with World Savings Bank, which later ended up in the hands of Wells Fargo, using one of the pick-a-payment loans that let you choose your own payment each month.

We picked the lowest possible payment, the one that added to our balance each month instead of subtracting from it. And we added a line of credit with Wells Fargo.

The extra borrowing power was important, because while my income was growing rapidly it wasn’t enough to support all our expenses. Around that time, I left Merrill Lynch to become an independent financial adviser, so it was easy enough to convince ourselves that we were borrowing to pay for the start-up costs.

There was some truth to that, but we were also borrowing against the house to finance our lifestyle. The line between business expenses and personal ones is sometimes hard to draw when you run your own business, and during those heady times it seemed even harder. But in hindsight it is clear that we were spending more than we should have on things like recreational gear and family trips for ourselves and our four children.

It was extravagant, but it seemed modest compared to what some of our neighbors were doing. Our house was the smallest model in the neighborhood (though at 3,500 square feet it was hardly tiny), and we drove a Chevy and a VW. Cori and I and some of our friends had a lot of conversations comparing our spending habits to those around us. How can so-and-so afford a boat? How are people buying new trucks and four-wheelers and 5,000-square-foot homes? Do they know something we don’t know?

At times, it seemed as if maybe they did. I knew a builder of custom homes who urged me to buy one of his houses for close to $2 million. I told him there were at least a million reasons why I couldn’t do that. He looked at me like I just didn’t get it. He assured me the house was appraised for $200,000 more than the asking price, and that after I lived there I could take out a line of credit to live on while the house went up even further.

The crazy thing is, he was right. The place eventually sold for more than $3 million. When I heard that, I felt a little silly that we hadn’t taken that risk.

As for our spending, we told each other that we’d catch up later, as my income and the value of our home continued to rise. As late as February 2006, a comparable home in our neighborhood sold for $998,000. We made the classic mistake of projecting recent trends — even extreme ones — into the future.

But slowly — and then increasingly — we began to have a different kind of conversation, “When are we going to stop and just get on top of this?” The solution was always making more money, not cutting back. The fact is, it’s much easier to set a goal of making more money in the future than it is to buckle down and cut back today.

We never really worried that things would go to pieces the way they ultimately did. But then came the collapse in the stock market. I had clients calling in tears and breaking down in my office. People who had never worried about their portfolios were calling me from their vacations. It was like talking people in off a ledge virtually every day, maybe three times a day, for maybe 90 days in a row.

The range of potential outcomes had gotten so broad in people’s minds that it now included the end of the world. What they wanted and needed more than anything was reassurance that things would be O.K. and that they should stick with the investment plans we had created together. Providing that reassurance had been my job for 10 years or more, but this was the first time that I really wondered if my advice was right.

It was my job to assist them, but I found it incredibly stressful. It didn’t help that we were in increasingly dire straits ourselves. My income fell about 20 percent because my take-home pay depended on the amount of money I managed. At the same time, our cost for health insurance and property taxes kept increasing, and the payment on our mortgage reset higher as well.

By then, housing prices in Las Vegas were falling quickly, and the bank had cut off our home equity line of credit. We quickly got rid of a car and stopped taking trips. I moved into a smaller workspace and cut back on my administrative and marketing costs. Even so, we found ourselves using credit cards as emergency stopgaps.

Then, the sickness set in. The pain would start in my stomach, and then I’d spend six hours vomiting. It happened once, then three months later it happened again, then one month later it happened yet again. Eventually, it was happening every couple of weeks. The doctors couldn’t find a physical cause.

Right around that time, it became clear that we might need to get back to Utah, where 90 percent of my (still nervous) clients lived. We spent the summer of 2009 living in my in-laws’ basement in Salt Lake City, while I tried to stabilize my financial planning business. By that fall, I was convinced we had to move back permanently to save the business. But that meant we faced the question of what to do about the house.

By then, we owed over $200,000 more than our original loan balance.

Borrowing that much had seemed to make sense when the value of the home was still rising substantially every year, taking our net worth higher with it. But at that point, there was no way we could sell the home for anywhere near what we owed. Some of my friends were already doing short sales, where the bank agrees to let you sell the house for less than your loan balance. I was also aware you had to be three months behind in your payments before the bank would talk to you about the possibility.

At first, I dismissed the idea of a short sale. Late that summer, I sat down with a really close friend in Las Vegas, someone I looked up to. He cut to the heart of the matter right away: Why, he wanted to know, were we still making the payments?

Because I have a moral obligation, I said. You pay your debts.

He proceeded to explain that I didn’t have a moral obligation to the bank. I had a moral obligation to my family. I had a contractual obligation to the bank, along with a clear moral obligation to be honest in my dealings. What he was asking was this: Which is more important? Your contractual obligation to the bank or your obligation to your family to preserve your ability to make a living?

I had never thought of it that way. But it made sense. I summed it up to myself like this: I have a contractual obligation to the bank (as well as a moral obligation not to skirt the consequences of breaking it: losing my house and wrecking my credit score). But my moral obligation to my family trumps the contractual obligation to the bank.

Cori and I thought about this for months, but we finally decided to let the house go and stop making payments so we could pursue a mortgage modification or a short sale. The fact was, we didn’t have a choice. We simply couldn’t afford it.

I remained troubled by the ethical implications of what I was doing, but I soon started seeing some of my friend’s arguments echoed in the work of Brent T. White, a law professor at the University of Arizona. He and others were arguing that homeowners should act more like companies — taking into account legal and economic reasons for stopping a regular payment rather than “perceived moral obligations.”

That was reassuring in the dead of night while I sat in front of the computer trying to make sense of the world financial markets and my own personal situation. I remember being relieved at discovering a way to frame my decision.

But we didn’t know what would happen in the harsh light of day, and we were scared to death. Would we be kicked out of our house? What would the neighbors think? What would the children think? We worried about the stress on our relationship and even the survival of our marriage. I felt like a complete failure.

We looked into a mortgage modification, thinking it might let us keep the house and rent it out after we moved. But the offer from Wells Fargo, which owned our loans by then, was too modest. That meant we could either walk away from the house or work with the bank to do an orderly short sale.

A bank representative came to the house and met with us. He was such a nice guy. Cori had treated it like an open house, and the place was spotless. The guy said he’d never met anyone more qualified for their short sale program.

Somehow, even in that horrid market, we sold the home for $531,000. That was in late August 2010. In exchange, the lender released us from both our first and second mortgages. Today, Zillow estimates the home’s value at $505,000.

We were pretty low when we packed up to leave. We hadn’t told anyone about the short sale — not family and only one or two friends. But we sensed that people knew anyway.

We borrowed a truck from a friend who owns a wood mill to move our belongings. Back in Utah, we found a house to rent— much to my relief and after months of being terrified that we’d never be able to find a landlord willing to take a chance on us. I had to tell the owner what had happened. He looked at our personal references and let us lease the house anyway.

We love where we live now. Still, there are consequences. We lost our home. It’s not clear when we’ll be in a position to become homeowners again.

But the worst thing was my sense of complete failure and powerlessness when I realized that things were out of control and that it was my fault. These days, there is still a sense of genuine regret that I screwed up and hurt myself and other people. I still worry about what others think of my behavior, which is one reason I haven’t shared this story with many people until recently.

We have a friend who is under water on his mortgage even though he has lived within his means and done everything right. He’s sticking with his mortgage for as long as he can.

Someone recently asked me what I’d say to people like him. I guess I’m saying it now. As I was writing this article, I pulled behind a truck with a bumper sticker, “Honk if I’m paying your mortgage.”

I thought about that for a while. I guess one of the ideas behind that bumper sticker is that people like Cori and me who couldn’t afford to pay off our mortgages are to blame for the financial crisis and the bank bailouts that followed. This isn’t the place to explain the causes of the economic slump, and I’m not the guy to do it.

Still, the questions linger. As I ponder all this — and I think about it a lot — it occurs to me that we are a nation of risk-takers. Some of us were overoptimistic; some were ignorant; some were deluded; some were greedy; some just had bad timing. We erred to different degrees. Our experiences varied; each story is different. Now you know mine.

The experience has changed just about everything about how I do financial planning and the advice I give in public. For one thing, I am less quick to judge other people’s financial behavior. I’m also more inclined to take into account personal factors that determine how people behave around money.

I have a friend who is going through a tough time financially. He has a high income, but is burdened by debt from a few real estate deals that went south. He continues to take fairly expensive ski trips. That would seem irresponsible in his situation, and maybe they are.

But I now realize that it is not that simple. Maybe those trips are keeping the guy alive, or saving his marriage or keeping him sane enough to work.

I have another good friend who borrowed against his house to pay for a therapist. Unless you were walking in his shoes you might think that was stupid, but it saved his life and changed his career. It ended up being one of the best investments he ever made.

The process of making financial decisions is about more than building a spreadsheet to calculate the answer, because life rarely fits cleanly into a spreadsheet. Our decisions often appear irrational until we understand the whole story.

I’ve also learned some things about risk. Risk is an arbitrary concept, until you experience it. And I’ve noticed myself focusing more on the consequences of something going wrong than just the probability of that happening. As a result, I tend to urge my clients to make decisions that err on the side of caution.

As for Cori and me, things are much better now. Moving back to Utah clearly was the right choice. The business is doing well, and we’ve managed to pay down most of our debt. It would be easy to say that we’ve learned our lesson, that we’ll never screw up again.

But it’s not that simple. At times I’m absolutely clear about what makes sense. Then ordinary life choices arise, and things can get cloudy. Should our children play sports that cost money? What kind of family vacation is O.K.? How much is enough?

We’re still working on that last one. But we are asking the question, repeatedly. And the temptation to overspend, to go for it, to tell ourselves that things will work out in the long run, is tempered by a feeling that something big is at stake.

All I have to do to remind myself of that is to remember what it felt like to stand outside the kitchen window two years ago, looking in on my life, and thinking I might not get it back.

What Becomes Of The Soul After Death?

Find out here…..

http://www.dlshq.org/download/afterdeath.htm

Jesus was in India….

Do you know that:
Ancient scrolls reveal that Jesus spent seventeen years in India and Tibet?
From age thirteen to age twenty-nine, he was both a student and teacher of Buddhist and Hindu holy men?
The story of his journey from Jerusalem to Benares was recorded by Brahman historians?
Today they still know him and love him as St. Issa. Their ‘buddha’?
Read this….http://reluctant-messenger.com/issa.htm

The Lost Years of Jesus: The Life of Saint Issa – Notovitch

www.reluctant-messenger.com

The life of Saint Issa: Best of the sons of men: (The lost years of Jesus)

Sufiaana (The Complete Sufi Experience) for download

Thanks Sajal !!

CD-1 Sufi Love

01.Sajda My Name Is KHan
02.Jashn E Bahaara Jodhaa Akbar
03.Shukran Allah Kurban
04.Iktara Wake Up Sid
05.BOl Na Halke Halke Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
06.Saiyyan Kailash Kher
07.Tere Bina Guru
08.O Re Piye Aaja Nachle
09.Teri Justajoo Roopkumar Rathod
10.Teri Ore Singh si Kinng
11.Tere Bin Nahin Lagda Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
12.Sajni Master Saleem Feat, Shruti Pathak
13.Tere Naina Kailash Kher
14.Barkha Bahar Devika

CD-2 Sufi Euphoria

01.khwaja Mere Khawaja Jodhaa Akbar
02.Noor E Khuda My Name Is Khan
03.Zindagi Ye Dil Kabaddi
04.Bandya Khuda Kay Liye
05.Jana Jogi De Naal Kailash Kher
06.Ha Raham Aamir
07.Allah Hoo KHuda Kay liye
08.Aaya Tere Dar Par
09.Mitwa Kabhi Alvia Na Kehna
10.Dua Kurbaan
11.Ishq Nachaya Sona
12.Noor Un Ala Noor Meenaxi

CD-3 Soulful Sufi

01.Tere Naina My Name Is khan
02.Chaandan Mein Kailash Kher
03.Iktara (Male Version) Wake Up Sid
04.Ay Hairathe Guni
05.Ek Lau Aamir
06.Tu Hi Haqeeqat Tum Mile
07.Maula Mere Lele Meri Jaan Chak De India
08.Ehsaan Dil Kabaddi
09.Soniyo (From The Heart Mix) Raaz-The Mystery Continues
10.Ali Maula Kurbaan
11.Maujood Hain Jaswinder Singh
12.Teri Yaad Kailash Kher
13.Kehnde De Naina Devika

CD-4 TimeLess Sufi

01.Teri Deewani Kailash Kher
02.Maula Mere Maula Anwar
03.Mann Ki Lagan Paap
04.Afreen Afreen Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
05.Tere Ishq Mein Rekha Bharadwaj
06.Allah Ke Bande Kailash Kher
07.Jiya Dhadak Dhadak Kalyug
08.Javeda Zindagi(Tose Naina Laage) Anwar
09.Dilruba Kailash Kher
10.Heer – The Search Sukhwinder Singh
11.Gurus Of Peace Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & AR Rahman
12.Chhap Tilak Kailash Kher

CD-5 Traditional Sufi

01.Allah Hoo Allah Hoo Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
02.Mast Kalandar Abida Parveen
03.Man Kunto Maula Rahat Fateh Ali KHan
04.Bahut Rahi Babul Ghar Shubha Mudgal
05.Tere Ishq Nachaaya Abida Parveen

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CD 3 : Sufi – Soulful 

CD 4 : Sufi – Timeless

CD 5 : Sufi – Traditional

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Man drank wife’s blood for 3 years in Madhya Pradesh (Sick !!)

http://www.samachar.com/Man-drank-wifes-blood-for-3-years-in-MP-lhsdKTchefc.html

Unbelievable? Believe it !

BHOPAL: This real life incident has the making of a scene from some vampire movie. A 22-year-old woman in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh has told the police that her husband drank her blood for the past three years. “He used to take a syringe and draw blood from my arms,” Deepa Ahirwar said. “He would then empty it in a glass and drink it. For three years he did this on a regular basis, threatening me of dire consequences if I revealed this to anyone.”

Deepa was married to an agricultural labourer, Mahesh Ahirwar, in Shikarpura village in 2007. A few months after the marriage, Mahesh started drawing blood from his wife’s veins and consuming it. He said it made him strong and did not stop even when Deepa was pregnant. It was after she gave birth to a son seven months ago that she started protesting. She told the police that she would feel drained and nauseating after the blood extraction. When she resisted, her husband beat her up.

Earlier this month, Deepa, with the baby in her arms, escaped to her parents’ house under the Patera police station area. When she narrated the story to her farmer father, he took her to the local police station to register a case against Mahesh. But the police said that the case was not under their jurisdiction and the matter should be reported to theHindoriya police station as the victim resided with her husband in that area.

Deepa and her parents took the matter to Hindoriya, where they were directed to the women counseling section. Neither Hindoriya nor Patera registered a case against the absconding Mahesh. When the residents of Shikarpura came to know of Mahesh’s deeds, they took up Deepa’s cause. The Hindoriya police have now registered an FIR that she was physically tortured by her husband.

(What we see in films about police negligence is not totally wrong…)

LOKPAL BILL – phone voting by MISS CALL

Government of India put a condition that 25 CRORES of people support is needed to implement ‘LOKPAL-BILL’

For this we just have to GIVE A MISSED call (Toll Free) to the following number from your Mobile - ‘’022 61550789’’.(Authentic number given by none other than Ms Kiran Bedi).

After giving a missed call to this number, you’ll receive a thanks message.

Forward this to as many as possible to make India corruption free!! 

Lets do a bit from our side to save our India from these corrupt politicians !! 
 
Lets be a part of this movement to punish those corrupt people…
 
  
“The world suffers a lot, Not because of the violence of bad people, But because of the SILENCE of good people!”

I wonder…..

When we are born, our mothers get the compliments and the flowers.When we are married, our brides get the presents and the publicity.When we die, our widows get the life insurance.What do women want to be liberated from?

LEARNING TO LIVE WITHOUT RECOGNITION IS A SKILL

The PIG & Horse tale

There was a farmer who collected horses; he only needed one more breed to complete his collection. One day, he found out that his neighbor had the particular horse breed he needed. So, he constantly bothered his neighbor until he sold it to him. A month later, the horse became ill and he called the veterinarian, who said: – Well, your horse has a virus. He must take this medicine for three days. I’ll come back on the 3rd day and if he’s not better, we’re going to have to put him down.

Nearby, the pig listened closely to their conversation.

The next day, they gave him the medicine and left. The pig approached the horse and said: – Be strong, my friend. Get up or else they’re going to put you to sleep!

On the second day, they gave him the medicine and left. The pig came back and said: – Come on buddy, get up or else you’re going to die! Come on, I’ll help you get up. Let’s go! One, two, three…

On the third day, they came to give him the medicine and the vet said: – Unfortunately, we’re going to have to put him down tomorrow. Otherwise, the virus might spread and infect the other horses.

After they left, the pig approached the horse and said: Listen pal, it’s now or never! Get up, come on! Have courage! Come on! Get up! Get up! That’s it, slowly! Great! Come on, one, two, three… Good, good. Now faster, come on…. Fantastic! Run, run more!
Yes! Yay! Yes! You did it, you’re a champion!!!

All of a sudden, the owner came back, saw the horse running in the field and began shouting: – It’s a miracle! My horse is cured. This deserves a party. Let’s kill the pig!

Points for reflection: This often happens in the workplace. Nobody truly knows which employee actually deserves the merit of success, or who’s actually contributing the necessary support to make things happen.