April 11, 2012

SELF CONFIDENCE


SELF CONFIDENCE 


A business executive was in deep debt and could see no way out. Creditors were chasing on him. Suppliers were demanding payment. He sat on the park bench, head in hands, wondering if anything could save his company from bankruptcy. Suddenly an old man appeared before him. " I can see something is troubling you," he said. After listening to the executive's woes, the old man said " I believe I can help you."
  
He asked the man his name, wrote out a cheque, and pushed it into his hand saying, " Take this money.  Meet me here exactly one year from today, and you can pay me back at that time."  Then he turned and disappeared as quickly as he had come. The business executive saw in his hand a cheque for $500,000. signed by John D Rockefeller, then one of the richest men in the world. " I can erase my money worries in an instant!" he realized.  But instead, the executive decided to put the uncashed cheque in his safe.  Just knowing it was there might give him the strength to work out a way to save his business, he thought.


With renewed optimism, he negotiated better deals and extended terms of payment.  He closed several big sales. Within  a few months, he was out of debt and making money once again. Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the uncashed cheque.  At the agreed upon time, the old man  appeared.  But just as the executive was about to hand back the cheque and share his business success story, a nurse came running up and grabbed the old man.  " I am so glad I caught him" she cried.  " I hope he hasn't been bothering you.  He is always escaping from rest home and telling people he is John D Rockefeller."


And she led the old man away by the arm.  The astonished executive just stood there, stunned.  All year long he'd been wheeling and dealing, buying and selling, convinced he had half a million dollars behind him.  Suddenly, he realized that it was not the money, real or imagined, that had turned his life around.  


It was his new found self confidence that gave  him the power to achieve anything he went after.



3 comments:

  1. Self confidence is more like a statue hidden in the rock..to see the statue..we should take out all unwanted or extra things..when it had been chiseled out..the statue appears..like wise, when we chisel fear of losing, worries, negative feelings from our thoughts..self confidence arrises just like the rise of sun everyday...Article is good to share with..it just shows what confidence can bring the change in our life..

    Great piece of information chikkappa..thanks a lot

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  2. Dear Srikanth,
    Thanks for your comments.
    prakash

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  3. ಆತ್ಮವಿಶ್ವಾಸವೆಂಬ ಮಂತ್ರದಂಡ ಏನನ್ನಾದರೂ ಸಾಧಿಸಬಲ್ಲದು! ನಿಜ, ಪ್ರಕಾಶರೇ, ಒಳ್ಳೆಯ ಸಂದೇಶದ ಪ್ರಸ್ತುತಿ!

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