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RokZRooM Special ! You Can Win by Shiv Khera

The guarantee was a lot of money in those days, but the boys agreed and proceeded to
promote the concert. They worked hard, only to find that they had grossed only $1,600.
After the concert the two boys told the great artist the bad news. They gave him the
entire $1,600, along with a promissory note for $400, explaining that they would earn the
amount at the earliest possible moment and send the money to him. It looked like the end
of their college careers.
"No, boys," replied Paderewski, "that won't do." Then, tearing the note in two, he returned
the money to them as well. "Now," he told them, "take out of this $1,600 all of your
expenses and keep for each of you 10 percent of the balance for your work. Let me have
the rest."
The years rolled by. World War I came and went. Paderewski, now premier of Poland,
was striving to feed thousands of starving people in his native land. The only person in
the world who could help him was Herbert Hoover, who was in charge of the US Food
and Relief Bureau. Hoover responded and soon thousands of tons of food were sent to
Poland.
After the starving people were fed, Paderewski journeyed to Paris to thank Hoover for the
relief sent him.
"That's all right, Mr. Paderewski ," was Hoover's reply. "Besides, you don't remember it,
but you helped me once when I was a student at college, and I was in trouble."

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help
another without helping himself.

--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Goodness has a way of coming back; that is the nature of the beast. One doesn't have to
do good with a desire to get back. It just happens automatically.

WE SEE THINGS NOT THE WAY THEY ARE BUT THE WAY WE ARE

There is a legend about a wise man who was sitting outside his village. A traveler came
up and asked him, "What kind of people live in this village, because I am looking to move
from my present one?" The wise man asked, "What kind of people live where you want to
move from?" The man said, "They are mean, cruel, rude." The wise man replied, "The
same kind of people live in this village too." After some time another traveler came by
and asked the same question and the wise man asked him, "What kind of people live
where you want to move from?" And the traveler replied, "The people are very kind,
courteous, polite and good." The wise man said, "You will find the same kind of people
here too."
What is the moral of the story?
Generally we see the world not the way it is but the way we are. Most of the time, other
people's behavior is a reaction to our own.

TRUST

I believe all relationships are trust relationships, such as employer employee, parentchild,
husband wife, student / teacher, buyer / seller, customer / salesperson. How can we have
trust without integrity? Crisis in trust really means crisis in truth. Trust results from being
trustworthy.
What are the factors that build trust?

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