Life Changing Stories

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question.Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is the glass of water?”Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for...

There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence.On the first day, the boy hammered 37 nails into that fence.The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased.He discovered it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t...