This will be the content of my 4-7 minutes speech on my Toastmasters speech project on 13 Nov 2013 that will be held in Blue Ocean Academy Toastmasters Club. I would like to publish it first on my blog to get some comments before I deliver the actual speech so I still have time to make necessary addendum or pertinent changes based on the comments generated. This is based from the story of the farmers donkey. You might be familiar of it but this is a story that inspires me to keep going and not giving up. Here it goes.... One day a farmers donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried for hours while the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, he decided that the donkey was old and the well needs to be covered anyway, he thought that its not really worth it retrieving the donkey. So he summoned his neighbors to come and help him. Everyone grabbed a shovel and began shoveling dirt/soil into the well. At first, the donkey didnt realized what was happening so he panicked and cried horribly. As to everybodys amazement, the donkey quieted down and the farmer went to peep into the well and was astonished of what he saw. Every time a shovel of dirt hits its back, the donkey is doing something amazing. He shakes off and takes a step up. Shake it off and take a step up until such time that he reach the edge of the well happily and trotted off. What a great behavior, isnt it? It is an attitude worthy of emulation by humans. Life will throw dirt on you but the trick in getting out of the well is to shake off and take a step up. Too often we hold on to what has happened to us. We hold onto it for a week, months or even years. We cannot shake it loose from our memory that it eventually steals our joy, happiness and peace of mind. The past hurt can create feelings of bitterness, resentment, anger and revenge. We keep allowing these emotions to be thrown on our backs and if we do nothing, we will be buried deep in the well. Walls will be built in our relationships. We will avoid each other and the cold war begins. But, we have a choice: you can keep it inside, embrace the hurt or shake it off and step up. Whatever it is: a rude comment, a past mistake, being ignored, unsuccessful business deal and receiving a NO answer from a proposal…let it go. Shake it off and step up. Each of our troubles and disappointments is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up and by taking a step up. Too often we nurture hurts, we keep them alive inside and go over them time and time again; not only clinging from them, but also embracing and loving them over and over until it gets us sick. We even rehearse hurts by telling everyone what has happened to us. Stop!! Instead, accept what has happened, try to make sense out of it, learn from it, then shake it off and step up. When you let it go, you feel free and you are no longer buried in the well. Once you are on your feet again you can take some action. You decide where you want to grow in life, the direction you want to take. You decide whether you will allow the hurt to make you a bitter or a better person. In this world, people will always throw stones in the path of your success, it depends on you what you make from them…. you can build a wall or a bridge. Shake it off and step up!!!!!!!!!
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:34:02 +0000
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