Email OF The Day: 12/15/14

Monday, 15 December 2014

[www.keralites.net] Story: The Shoes Salesman

You will perhaps have heard this very old story illustrating the difference between positive thinking and negative thinking:

Many years ago two salesmen were sent by a British shoe manufacturer to Africa to investigate and report back on market potential.

The first salesman reported back, "There is no potential here - nobody wears shoes."

The second salesman reported back, "There is massive potential here - nobody wears shoes."

This simple short story provides one of the best examples of how a single situation may be viewed in two quite different ways - negatively or positively.

We could explain this also in terms of seeing a situation's problems and disadvantages, instead of its opportunities and benefits.

When telling this story its impact is increased by using exactly the same form of words (e.g., "nobody wears shoes") in each salesman's report. This emphasizes that two quite different interpretations are made of a single situation.

On the same line we counter so my situation in our daily work life, which certainly can become an opportunity for us and our mindset play a vital role to make that count an win-win situation.

Junaid Tahir
www.DailyTenMinutes.com

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[www.keralites.net] Fake and Real Friends

Fake and Real Friends

FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.

REAL FRIENDS: Is the reason you have no food.

FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back.

REAL FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours.

FAKE FRIENDS: know a few things about you.

REAL FRIENDS: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from you.

FAKE FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door.

REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say 'I'M HOME!'

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for a while.

REAL FRIENDS: Are for life.

FAKE FRIENDS: will talk bad to the person who talks bad about you.

REAL FRIENDS: Will knock the person out that talked bad about you.

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,br>"As a person of mixed cultural and geographic upbringing, I view Japan both as an insider and as an outsider. My situation gives me a unique lens through which I interpret and convey beauty, both Eastern and Western variations of it.
,br>I am violently in love with the features of the human (especially female) face. I can't tire of its beauty. I paint because I feel driven to capture those alluring, intoxicating features that I see in my mind's eye. Draping my faces in Japanese patterns and flowers accentuates the opulent lushness with which I am so mesmerized. Do I feel like I've ever perfectly captured this beauty, this perfect girl? No. She's always just out of reach, and transforms into another more beautiful girl just as I think I've penned her. But that's alright... I will continue to follow her, continue to discover her multi-faceted mystique.
,br>I work in mixed media because I don't feel that one single medium can properly express the many nuances that accompany my subject matter. Symbolic elements within the artworks are an outlet for my inner struggles I have at the time of painting, and they beckon the viewer to ponder the same universal questions."
,br>JUURI was born in Tokyo, Japan on Christmas Eve 1983 and moved with her family to the USA when she was six years old. She signs her work "Juuri" (従理), which is her Japanese given name and equivalent to the English name "Julie."
,br>Julie has loved drawing since she could hold a pencil. Her entire childhood was filled with drawing and creating, from illustrated stories to "replica" props and costumes from her favorite films. She sold her first painting when she was 13 years old.
,br>During college, Julie got to explore more of her Japanese heritage as she painted alongside Japanese exchange students who were also in the same art program. "I knew then what was most important to me to express through my art," she says. "It was the deepest 'me' there is; the 'me' that was there all along. My Japanese heritage is so precious to me, and I could explore the facets of that beautiful culture endlessly." Julie started visiting Japan regularly to see her relatives and to gain fresh inspiration from the beauty of the culture.
,br>Since her decision to pursue fine art seriously in 2010, Julie has made an impression showing her mixed media paintings of colorful, flora-wrapped Japanese faces. She has now had numerous exhibitions both in Oklahoma, where she currently resides, and Southern California. She continues to sell art to clients around the country and around the globe. Her ultimate goal is to take her artistic venture back to her home "town" of Tokyo.
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