Be like a coffee bean! I made this video based on a recent book I read by Jon Gordon and Damon West called The Coffee Bean.
This story has a very simple yet powerful message. In life, when you are given the choice to be a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean; always be a coffee bean.
View my video below to find out why…
This is a story that I’m sure many of you have already heard (and probably several versions of it), but it is such a beautiful message that it can’t hurt to hear it again.
Inspired by the real-life anecdote told by Loren Eiseley in The Underground Universe.
Many of us see yin and yang as being opposites (good and bad, hot and cold, happy and sad, etc), but the truth is that yin and yang are actually complements of one another.
If you think about it, hot and cold are simply the extremes of the full experience of what we call temperature. And if we didn’t have one, we wouldn’t have the other. They both play an essential role. How else would we create warm, if we didn’t have a little bit of both?
So just a little food for thought. Our world seems to be very divisive right now. We have become either boiling hot or freezing cold. Let’s try to remember the beauty of the warmth that we once experienced and never forget that it takes both, a little bit of hot and a little bit of cold to make it happen.
It’s amazing how we can be careless with our choice of words. Too often we let our emotions do the talking and not realize the impact that our words have on others, especially those closest and dearest to us.
In just a few moments our words are so powerful that they can change someone’s life forever. Think before you speak!
Would you agree that words are a lot like water?
Water can create life, it can create electricity, it’s an essential part of our health and we use it every day.
But water can also create massive damage, destruction, and sometimes even death.
So how are words a lot like water?
Well, words can be very beautiful and fill us with enthusiasm and life, but words can also be very mean and harmful and drain the enthusiasm and life right out of us.
And just like water, we use words every day. It’s how we communicate with others, and just as important it’s how we communicate with ourselves.
We may not have control over what people say to us, but we sure have control over what we say to others, and to ourselves.
Now why is that important??
Well, words create images in our mind.
These images impact our emotions.
These emotions impact our actions.
And our actions generate consequences.
Therefore our words play an integral part in the consequences we deal with in life.
Harness the power of words to nurture and create beautiful consequences, not consequences that will lead to regret.