The Five Keys to Success

(That your basic pencil can teach you)

Do you sometimes find yourself tired, frustrated, losing focus, and almost buckling under the weight of life's challenges?  

Believe it or not, your key to getting back on track may be no further away than reaching for your humble pencil!  

We've recently been reflecting on an old story called "The Parable of the pencil" that we thought may enrich your experience, allow us to share it with you.

The way the story ends, the pencil understood and promised to remember, and went into the box with purpose in its heart. 

Now, if we take the place of the pencil in the story, it reminds us of five keys to our success, which we've stated as follows:

ONE:  Remember that we are uniquely designed to do great things.  Yet, to do that we need to let go of our desire to control everything and allow ourselves to be GUIDED.

TWO:  Shit happens, to everyone, and sometimes it hurts. Don't delude ourselves that we are uniquely afflicted, recognise that life challenges are the way we grow and develop.  Once we pay attention, learn something from the situation, and put it into practice, we will grow stronger.

THREE: We will make mistakes, we are human.  We don't need to dwell on them or wallow in negativity.  The most important thing is to correct them, and not make the same mistake twice.

FOUR: We are more than just a shell of flesh, remember that.  We have to protect our values, our spirit, our moral compass from all of the negativity that can sometimes pervade this world.  We have a choice about what seeds we let take root inside us.  Pay attention to which dog we're feeding.
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FIVE: Everything that we do in life leaves a mark, good or bad.  Its our choice whether we want our legacy to be one of joy, or negativity.  

To be successful, we cannot quit on our purpose, no matter how difficult the situation seems.  We need to refer back to number ONE above...and surrender ourselves to the hand that is guiding us.  

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