A lion was taken into captivity and thrown into a concentration camp where, to his amazement, he found other lions who had been there for years — some of them all their lives for they had been born there.
He soon became acquainted with the social activities of the lions — they banded themselves into groups.
One group consisted of the socialisers; another was into show business; another was cultural, for its purpose was to carefully preserve their customs, traditions, and the history of the times when lions were free; other groups were religious — they gathered mostly to sing songs about a future jungle where there would be no fences.
Some groups attracted those who were literary and artistic by nature; others were revolutionary — they met to plot against their captors or against other revolutionary groups.
Every now and then a revolution would break out, one particular group would be wiped out by
another, or the guards would all be killed and replaced with another set of guards.
As he looked around, the newcomer observed one lion who seemed deep in thought, a loner who belonged to no group and kept away from every lion.
There was something strange about him that commanded everyone's admiration and everyone's hostility, for his presence aroused fear and self-doubt.
He said to the newcomer, “Join no group. These poor fools are busy with everything except what is essential.” And what do you think is most essential? asked the newcomer. “Studying the nature of the fence,” the lion said. Life is like a camera, focus on what’s important, capture the good times, develop from the negatives and if things don’t work out, take another shot.
Nobody’s life is perfect. Life is a mix of good and bad experiences, it gets better when you remember the good times, get out of the negatives and give yourself a second chance and make a new beginning if required.
Do not let the urgent take precedence over what’s important: As they say the urgent finds you, you need to find what is important. And somehow, the urgent seems to take priority over the important.
Be mindful not to allow the urgent to take priority over what is important for you. Don’t constantly think of what can happen in the next one month, next one year, focus on what you can do in the next 24 hours.
You need to know your goals and your vision of success for which long term planning is important, but it is the small daily improvements that are key to success in the long term.
Consistency is more important than perfection: Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out because what you do every day matters more than what you do every once in a while.
If you focus on results, you will never change; if you focus on change, you will get results. Change is the end result of all great learning.
And when you focus all your energies on accepting change, learn from it and ride ahead, you will automatically see results.
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