MOTIVATION MONDAY: The story of the free bagel that helped me realize one important thing

Hello hello to you all Steemians😊
I hope to find you in good shape for this beginning of the week! To help you get through this Monday, let me share a story, a story about how the way we see things can affect our lives.

This story is not mine, this story is told by Simon Sinek, a British speaker author of books on motivation and management. The story goes like this:

At Central Park, an association of runners organizes races on weekends. And a weekend, we decided with a friend to participate in a race. And at the end of it, as they are used to do sometimes, some sponsors gave goodies, apples, juice, etc ... And this weekend, in particular, a sponsor offered a bagel. A free bagel. And as you can imagine the scene, there was on one side of the table busy volunteers, and on another a giant queue of people hoping to have their bagel too.

So I said to my friend, "Hey, let's go eat a bagel!"

And he said, "But did you see the line of people, it's too long ..."

I watched him: "It's a free bagel"

"Naaaah ... I do not want to wait," he replied.

"It's a FREE bagel"

And that's when I realized that there are two ways you can see the world: you can see the things you want OR the obstacles to the things you want.

At that moment, I saw only the bagel and my friend saw only the line.

And people who can see the bagel, able to see what they want, then see the size of the obstacles before them decrease. This gives a real motivation for innovation, while those who see only the obstacle manage to lose the very why of what motivated them at the beginning, paralyzed by the fear or blocked by the challenges.

So, the conclusion I drew is this: See the free bagel. Clearly identify your goals. Define your goals and why.

Her story surely resonates with moments of your life as she resonates with some of mine. I remember this event Coca-Cola in Poland where their goal was to bring the most people in a space bounded by a barrier in order to open a maximum of Coke bottle at once. In exchange for a t-shirt. And the people were monstrous.
Having joined friends in the queue, we saw that the line was not moving forward. But the volunteers Coca gave us cans from behind the barriers. Mission accomplished I want to tell you. I left, having other things to do with my time. afterwards, I learned that my friends had waited a long hour in the queue before being able to return to the enclosure, after which they waited another hour before opening the bottles.

From my point of view, I think I did well to leave. And you, what would you have done in this situation? Do you have a story that resonates with Simon's? I would be happy to read it 😉

You can find the original video by clicking on the following link:

Hoping that this little story has given you enough courage for the week!

Take care of yourself,

Rob.

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