Are you accepting your existing limited situation and don’t expect anything more? If so, why are you accepting less than what you deserve? 

What is stopping you from obtaining your dream?

• You’re afraid to take action? 
• Or you feel really satisfied in your circumstances! 

I heard a story years ago:

It was about this little bird who was emigrating from one country to a warmer climate. 

He had forgotten to eat enough before leaving on flight. And after a long time he grew tired and struggled to keep flying. He was so exhausted, that he didn’t realize that he had entered a storm cloud. 

This was too much for him and he fell towards the earth. And where did he land? He landed in a cow-pie. He had fallen through a hole in a barn’s roof. 

He was so hurt; he happily stayed in the soft comfortable pie to recover. But as time passed, he no longer want to leave the pie, it was so lovely warm and comfy. 

In fact he was quite happy living in the manure. He no longer wanted to accept anything else. Perhaps this was all he was meant to have.  

Where the opportunity to walk out of the old barn and fly off into the blue sky and go places seemed too much trouble. So he snuggled down further into the muck and thought why bother. 

And he stayed there until the worms in the pie ate him and the farmer scraped out the muck! 

And here is another story:

There was once a farmer who saved the life of an eagle. 

He found this wounded eagle and mended its wing. Putting it in a cage to recover quietly on its own, he looked after and feed it often.  

And when it was well enough he put it in with his fowls, in their coop. Where it ate and slept with the fowls and grew really healthy. 

Then came the day when the farmer tried to get it to fly.  

He took the eagle out of the fowl run and put it on his gloved hand. With the flick of his arm, he tried to dislodge the bird and make it fly. At the same time he said, “Fly”, but the bird hung on and won’t fly. 

Oh, he thought, maybe the bird isn’t ready to fly, so he waited a couple more weeks and tried again. And again the bird wouldn’t fly. He even talked lovingly to the bird to encourage it. Nothing happened. 

So again he gave it more time to recover. And yet again it wouldn’t fly. Maybe, thought the farmer, it thinks he is a fowl, because it’s been living with the fowls for far too long. 

So he set the eagle on a high pole and tried to get it to fly. Still nothing happened. The bird looked somewhat scared. 

“Oh,” said the farmer again, “See those birds flying high over those mountains, they are eagles just like you!” And with that the farmer pushed him off his high perch, considering that’s what mother eagle generally do. 

The bird fell off the perch and had to put out his wings to save himself… and he flew. And at that moment he understood he wasn’t a fowl anymore. He was in fact an eagle with power under his wings. 

• Do you still feel comfortable in your situation? 
• Are you waiting to be `pushed off your perch'? 

What is your ‘fly’ option?

What have you been wanting and hoping for, for so long? 

• What’s stopping you?  

There is so much we would like to do in this life. 

Is there any changes can you make, so you can `fly’?

 Now is the time to invest in your life.