Tiny Frogs

Someone shared this story with me and I thought I would share it with you. I think the story is not only cute but defines what can make us GREAT.

Once upon a time there was a bunch of tiny frogs who arranged a running competition. The goal was to reach the top of a very high tower. A big crowd had gathered around the tower to see the race and cheer on the contestants. The race began and no one in the crowd really believed that the tiny frogs would reach the top of the tower.

You heard statements such as:

Oh, this is WAY too difficult!
They will NEVER make it to the top. or
Not a chance that they will succeed. The tower is too high!'
The tiny frogs began collapsing. One by one except for those, who in a fresh tempo, were climbing higher and higher. The crowd continued to yell, 'It is too difficult!!! No one will make it! More tiny frogs got tired and gave up but ONE continued higher and higher and higher. This one wouldn't give up and kept climbing! At the end everyone else had given up climbing the tower except for the one tiny frog who, after a big effort, was the only one who reached the top!

THEN all of the other tiny frogs naturally wanted to know how this one frog managed to do it? A contestant asked the tiny frog how he had found the strength to succeed and reach the goal? He just kept smiling and did not answer because as it turned out the winner was DEAF!!!!

The wisdom of this story is:

Never listen to other people's tendencies to be negative or pessimistic, because they take your most wonderful dreams and wishes away from you.
Negative thinking will erase the dreams you have in your heart!
Always think of the power that words have.
Everything you hear and read will affect your actions so be careful what you put in your heart and mind!
ALWAYS be POSITIVE and believe in your own vision.
Turn a DEAF ear to people who will tell YOU that you cannot fulfill your dreams!