Life is like a bowl of saltana bran
Tim on June 17th, 2007
A Thought just occurred to me on how similar life is to sultana bran, and people treat life in the same way. For those that don’t know sultana bran is a cereal that contains flakes and sultanas and often there are many more flakes then there are sultana’s.
It seems that the flakes of sultana bran are life’s problems, while the sultanas are the rewards. Often we get far more problems in life then we get rewards as thats just the way life works, it doesn’t give rewards unless the person works hard for it and if the person gives up then they don’t get anything.
So people spend their lives digging through the problems (which are the flakes of sultana bran) in search of rewards (the sultanas), in order to get to the sultanas they must constantly tackle the problems first. So they dig away dig away and eventually they go through about 3-4 problems then they decide its just too hard and the reward isn’t worth it. When there was a sultana just below that last flake! So they start on a different stack of problems, digging away, digging away in search of sultanas, and in that pile too they get through 3-4 problems then give up as they decide there are no rewards there. Meanwhile, just below this thin layer of flakes lies a hidden cache of amazing sultanas!
Far too often people continue to look for the sultanas in life but never receive any (apart from the few crappy ones on top) because they give up just before they reach them. Its true the rule I heard before that 90% of people give up when they are 10% away from success. So continue to push yourself that 10% more in every area of life and I guarantee you’ll reap massive rewards.
Are you constantly giving up just before the sultanas of life, or digging your way through and reaping the rewards?
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