Category: Monday Motivations

Monday Motivation….. July 01, 2013 (125) Once upon a time, there were two trees in a forest. They grew side by side and were fast friends. In the course of time, both of them turned into fully-grown trees, laden with fruit. In the same forest, there lived many birds and other small creatures, all of…

Monday Motivation….. June 24, 2013 (124) A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the president’s outer office. The secretary could tell in a moment that such backwoods, country hicks had no business at…

Monday Motivation….. June 17, 2013 (123) Once upon a time a stag, who lived in a jungle, decided to go for an outing with his family to another forest. The stag and his family enjoyed the new jungle, which had thick bushes and trees. There- was plenty to eat for all of them. All of…

Monday Motivation….. June 10, 2013 (122) There was a boy in India who was sent by his parents to a boarding school. Before being sent away this boy was the brightest student in his class. He was at the top in every competition. He was a champion. But the boy changed after leaving home and…

Monday Motivation….. June 03, 2013 (121) In 2005, the fifty-foot whale was weighted down by hundreds of pounds of traps that caused her to struggle to stay afloat. She also had hundreds of yards of line rope wrapped around her, her tail, her torso and a line tugging in her mouth.  A fisherman spotted her…

Monday Motivation….. May 27, 2013 (120) Once upon a time there was a wise sage who wandered the countryside. One day, as he passed near a village, he was approached by a woman who told him of a sick child nearby. She beseeched him to help this child. So the sage came to the village,…

Monday Motivation….. May 20, 2013 (119) In early 90’s Itzhak Perlman, a violinist came on stage to give a concert in New York City. He was stricken with polio as a child, and so he has braces on both legs and walks with the aid of two crutches. He walks painfully, yet majestically, until he…

Monday Motivation….. May 13, 2013 (118) Once upon a time the coldest winter ever was causing many animals to die. The hedgehogs, realizing the situation, decided to group together to keep warm. This way they covered and protected themselves; but the quills of each one wounded their closest companions. After awhile, they decided to distance…

Monday Motivation….. May 06, 2013 (117) Once upon a time there was a little girl named Sue. One night, Sue quarreled with her mother, and then stormed out of the house. While enroute, she remembered that she did not have any money in her pocket, she did not even have enough coins to make a…

Monday Motivation….. April 29, 2013 (116) Once upon a time, a small bird named Tasoo lived in a vast jungle. One hot summer day, a terrible wildfire erupted and the flames devoured many trees and animals living in the jungle. Other birds flew high into the sky and far away to safety, but Tasoo couldn’t…