A short motivational story to start a week!

Monday Motivation….. September 12, 2022 (606) Once upon a time, a sage presented a prince with a set of three small dolls. The prince was not amused. “Am I a girl that you give me dolls?” he asked. “This is a gift for a future king,” said the man. “If you look carefully, you’ll see…

Monday Motivation….. September 05, 2022 (605) There was a young student-archer who reached such proficiency in his art that he could shoot an arrow into a tree and then cleave that arrow into two with the next shot. He began to boast that he was a greater archer than his guru. One day his guru,…

Monday Motivation….. August 29, 2022 (604) Once upon a time there lived a Bharunda, a bird with two heads. One day it found a strange fruit on the seashore. It picked it up and started eating it. The head that was feeding, exclaimed, “Many a sweet fruit tossed by the sea have I eaten, but…

Monday Motivation….. August 22, 2022 (603) Anastasius was abbot of a monastery in Egypt. The monastery had a large collection of books, one among them being a rare volume, worth a fortune. One day a visiting monk chanced upon the book and succumbing to temptation walked away with it. The theft was discovered the same…

Monday Motivation….. August 15, 2022 (602) Once upon a time, a king who was so cruel and unjust that his subjects yearned for his death or dethronement. However, one day he surprised them all by announcing that he had decided to turn over a new leaf. “No more cruelty, no more injustice,” he promised, and…

Monday Motivation….. August 08, 2022 (601)Once upon a time, a Sage was giving a discourse on creative thinking. Afterwards his disciples approached him and asked him to set them a problem that required them to think creatively. The sage gave them a sieve and asked them to fill it with water at the sea, nearby.…

Monday Motivation….. August 01, 2022 (600)Once upon a time, there lived a tiger who feared nothing except the crowing of cocks. A chill would go down his spine whenever he heard a cock crowing.One day he confessed his fear to the elephant, who was greatly amused.“How can the crowing of a cock hurt you?” he…

Monday Motivation….. July 25, 2022 (599) I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a…

Monday Motivation….. July 18, 2022 (597) History speaks Dinosaurs first appeared in the Triassic (231.4 million years ago) and were the most dominant group of vertebrates for more than 165.4 million years until their extinction at the end of the Cretaceous (66 million years ago). Cockroaches – an insect that appeared in the Carboniferous period,…

Monday Motivation….. July 11, 2022 (596)In ancient times there was a queen who ordered her soldiers to maneuver a boulder into the middle of the main road to and from town.The queen then hid, watching to see who would stop to do the right thing and move it out of the way again.Wealthy merchants and…