Once upon a time…
Once upon a time, there was a king who had gone to visit his neighboring kingdoms. He was gifted a pair of baby Macaw Parrots by one of the kings. They were the most beautiful birds he had ever seen. So upon returning to his kingdom, he called for a bird trainer and asked him to train them.
The king also arranged a place in the palace garden for the parrots. He often looked at them from his palace window. As time passed, one day the trainer came to the palace and informed the king that though one of the parrots was flying majestically high in the sky, the other one had not moved from its branch since the day it had arrived.
Upon hearing this, the king summoned trainers and healers from the nearby kingdoms. They all tried their best, but couldn’t make the parrot fly! He even asked his courtiers to try but they all failed.
The parrot was not moving from his branch at all. Finally, after trying everything, the king thought that maybe he needed someone who might be more familiar with natural habitat. He asked his courtier to get a farmer from the countryside and take him to the parrot to see if he could figure out the problem with the parrot.
The next morning, the king was thrilled to see that the parrot was flying high about the palace gardens and he asked his servant to bring the farmer to see him.
The king asked him, “How did you make that parrot fly?”
With his hands folded with respect, the farmer said to the king, “It was very easy, your majesty. I simply cut the branch where the bird was sitting.”
LESSON? We are all gifted with abilities and energy to be successful in our lives. But we often fail to gather the courage to let go of the things we are clinging to just because they are familiar. We need to free ourselves from our comfort zone in order to explore new opportunities and find what success we are capable of!
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This was an excellent choice for today!
Thank you, Pat! Another good, thought-provoking post. Where will I be likely to learn more, inside or outside my comfort zone? I wonder if that question isn’t closely related to “Does one learn more as a result of failure or success?”
Russ, I’m of the school that says we CAN learn more from failure than from success, if we are willing to! And I’m inclined to believe that it’s outside my comfort zone that I’m motivated to learn something.
Wonderful story and a great message!
Many blessings