Inspiration and Motivation
A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved a new one arose.
Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water. In the first, she placed carrots. In the second she placed eggs. In the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee into a bowl.
All the time the daughter was looking at her as if she’d lost her mind.
Turning to her daughter, the mother asked, “Tell me what you see.”
“Carrots, eggs, and coffee,” she replied.
The mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted they were limp and soft. The mother then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, the daughter observed the hard-boiled egg. Finally, she asked her to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma, but was confused.
“What’s the point, mother?”
“Daughter, each of these objects faced the same adversity – boiling water – but each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard and unrelenting. It came out soft and weak. The egg began fragile. Its thin outer shell protected its liquid interior. But, after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. They actually changed the boiling water.”
She paused for a moment. “Which are you?” she finally asked her daughter. “When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?”
How would you answer that question?
Are you the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity, wilts and becomes soft and you lose your strength? Are you the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did you begin with a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, did you become bitter, hardened and stiff? Or are you like the coffee bean? The bean actually changed the hot water, the very circumstance that brought the pain. When the water got hot, it released the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst you get better and change the situation around you.
How do YOU handle adversity?
ARE YOU A CARROT, AN EGG, OR A COFFEE BEAN?
If your life is boiling around you, I’m hoping you make a “coffee bean” choice, and release the sweet fragrance of your life into a world that so badly needs you! You can make that choice because…
You can succeed. You can be have and do everything that you desire.
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