Drill Where The Oil Is

Drill Where The OIl Is

An oil driller was excited that the oil property he had just purchased had good prospects. He went to his wife and broke the good news, but she was not happy, “Honey, can’t you drill somewhere near so the commute would not be so long?”

The fundamental and obvious principle of drilling for oil is, “You got to drill where the oil is, not where you want it to be.”

It may seem obvious but yet we are unable to take this principle to heart. We all make the mistake of trying to look for stuff where we want it to be:

  1. When hunting for a job, instead of going where the jobs are, we look for them in our neighborhood. This causes our career to stagnate.
  2. Instead of building skills what the market or employer demands, we tend to build skills in areas where we are most comfortable. Our inability to go out of our comfort zone causes our progress to slow down.
  3. In business, instead of understanding what the customer needs, we try to provide the customer what we can or based on our own preferences. This is the reason why most businesses struggle.
  4. In our spiritual quest, we prefer to look for spiritual experience in the context of our ego, instead of outside it. Consequently most of us have difficulty making spiritual progress.

Just outside our comfort zone, lies growth and success. But this is scary and difficult, yet this is where we must go. This quote summarizes the insight of this post well:

“The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.” – Sherri Shepherd

Related: Five Secrets Of Your Comfort Zone

Credits: This has been written by Raj Shah and edited by Ketna Shah

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Go Not To The Temple

Go Not To The Temple

Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God,
First fill your own house with the Fragrance of love.

Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God,
First remove the darkness of sin from your heart.

Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer,
First learn to bow in humility before your fellowmen.

Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees,
First bend down to lift someone who is downtrodden.

Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins,
First forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

-Rabindranath Tagore

Rabindranath Tagore was the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He was a poet, mystic, author, playwright, songwriter, artist, educator, freedom fighter, and an intellectual stalwart who shaped the destiny of an entire subcontinent.

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The Date

What is the best gift we can give our loved ones? The answer will be no surprise- The gift of time! While it may seem artificial to mark some days as “father’s day” or “mother’s day”, after all we don’t stop being fathers or mothers or daughters or sons when the day is gone, it is still worthwhile to take the extra effort and gift our loved ones the “gift of time” on such special days.

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Mom, Are You Okay?

Hi Mom

I had a blind date last night. But I was concerned – What do I do if she’s really someone I don’t like at all ? I’ll be stuck with her with no easy way out.

Turns out, there’s an app for that.

It’s called “Mom Are You Ok”. It schedules your phone to ring just after you meet her.

If you like her, you ignore it.

If you want to cut short the date, you answer with, “Mom ? What’s the matter ? Are you okay ?”

It works every time.

So I knocked on the girl’s door. Turns out I needn’t have worried.

She was gorgeous! I couldn’t get over how attractive she was!!

Just as I was about to speak to her, her phone rang.

She answered it and said, “Mom, what’s the matter ? Are you okay ?” !!!

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The World Is Not Indestructible!

John Hardy had a difficult childhood as a Dyslexic kid. Ultimately he escaped to Thailand where he met his wife and raised a wonderful family. Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” moved him and he decided to open a “Green School”, even selling his thriving business to make it happen. The school has been based on the ideas of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner and has struggled through some difficult times since its inception in 2008. But now has 200+ children from 25 countries and it has become a magnet for green living. An entire community of green homes and businesses are coming up in its vicinity. John Hardy is devoting his life and treasure to raise a new generation of kids that will become the transformative green leaders of tomorrow and he is inviting everybody to use his example as a template to create similar schools and institutions all over the world.

Related: greenschool.org official web site.

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