Don't Magnify Problems
One
day, little Bobby's father came into the front room and saw the boy looking out
on the street through the big end of a telescope. He said, "Son, that's
not the way you look through a telescope. If you look through it that way, you
make the objects look smaller. A telescope is to make things look bigger."
Bobby
smiled and said, "Daddy, the bully who's always beating me up is out on
the street. I turned the telescope around because he's my main problem and I
want to see him smaller than he really is."
Most
of us, instead of taking the big end of the telescope and reducing our
problems, take the small end of the telescope and magnify our problems so that
they look much bigger than they really are.
Source:
Be All You Can Be
John C. Maxwell
