A short motivational story to start a week!

Monday Motivation….. Jan 26, 2026 (783) Growing up in the Philippines, Manny Pacquiao’s family faced extreme poverty. Basic meals were often a struggle. He left school early and entered professional boxing at age 16, driven by necessity and survival, not ambition. Pacquiao used his hunger, both literal and emotional, as fuel. He did not just…

Monday Motivation….. Jan 19, 2026 (782) In the late 1970s, Toyota was refining its legendary production system. The factory was quiet. Machines ran smoothly. Everything looked perfect on paper. Yet one assembly line kept falling behind schedule by a few minutes each hour. Not enough to trigger alarms… but enough to bother Toyota’s engineers. They…

Monday Motivation….. Jan 12, 2026 (781) Before Nike became a global empire…before the swoosh was iconic…before billions of dollars in revenue… Nike almost died in a single night. Back in the early days, Phil Knight and his small team did not have fancy headquarters. They did not have giant warehouses. They stored most of their…

Monday Motivation….. Jan 05, 2026 (780) Once upon a time in an old Japanese village, there was a smart man who owned a well, but he didn’t use it, so he decided to sell it to a nearby farmer. One day, when he passed by and saw the farmer pumping water from the well for…

Monday Motivation….. Dec 29, 2025 (779) A herd of wild elephants entered a banana plantation. They trampled over 200 trees. But one — just one — they left standing. Why? Because that tree held a sparrow’s nest. Four tiny chicks. Hidden. Vulnerable. Alive. The land belonged to a farmer in a forested region overseen by…

Monday Motivation….. Dec 22, 2025 (778) “You’re leaving this house. And I don’t want you to come back.” That was all he heard. There was no argument. No shouting. Just a dry sentence… and a door closing. His grandmother. The same woman who had raised him since he was a child… was now throwing him…

Monday Motivation….. Dec 15, 2025 (777) Despite their differences, they spent hours sharing stories. The fish lived in the depths—quiet and thoughtful. The seagull soared high—loud and full of energy. But that was never a problem… Until someone made it one. One day, another seagull said:—“Why waste your time with a fish? —It can’t fly…

Monday Motivation….. Dec 08, 2025 (776) While filling up his car at the gas station, a young man noticed an elderly gentleman standing nearby, holding an empty gas can—clearly waiting his turn, likely to fill it for his lawnmower. Without hesitation, the teen paused, pulled the nozzle from his car, and offered, “Would you like…

Monday Motivation….. Dec 01, 2025 (775) A man used to cross the river every day with his donkey. Together, they carried sacks of salt to the market. At the end of each long day, the man would say: “Thank you, my friend, for your hard work. Without you, I couldn’t support my family.” The donkey…