I got this inspiring story from a friend of mine, a forwarded email I guess. But what it has to say is really interesting and inspiring. Take your time to read it and maybe it'll change the way you think and the way your life flows...

And it starts.....

About 10 years ago, I started a job as a trainer for a Telemarketing agency. In one of my first classes the head trainer told a very motivating story that I would like to share with you.

He began by drawing a diagram of a stick man standing in the middle of a circle. To make it more interesting, he drew things like a house, a car, and a few friends inside the circle. He asked the question "Can anyone tell me what this is?"

In a long silence, one guy decided to throw out "the world?" The trainer said "That's close, this is your Comfort Zone. Inside your circle you have all the things that are important to you. Your home, your family, your friends, and your job. People feel that inside this circle they are safe from any danger or conflict.

"Can anyone tell me what happens when you step out of this circle?" A strong silence came over the room. The same eager guy abruptly announced "You are afraid". Another guy said "You make mistakes".

The silence continued and the trainer smiled and said "When you make mistakes what can the result be?" The first guy shouts "You learn something." "Exactly, you are learning." The trainer turned to the board and drew an arrow pointing from the stick man directly to the outside of the circle.

He proceeded to say "When you leave your Comfort Zone you put yourself out there, in front of the world to be in a situations that you are not comfortable with. The end result is that you have learned something that you did not already know, you expand your knowledge to become a better person." He turned again to the board and drew a bigger circle around the original circle, and added a few new things like more friends, a bigger house etc.

"The moral of the story is that if you stay inside your Comfort Zone you will never be able to expand your horizons and learn. When you step out of your Comfort Zone you will eventually make your circle bigger, to challenge your mind and grow to be stronger, and all in all a better person."

What do you think??... Out of your Comfort Zone yet??... You better be, or you will be heading where you don't want to. You are the captain of your own ship. Change course, and headed wherever you wanted. Or are you too afraid to change?... haha..

Think 'bout it.

Assalammualaikum... Hi there... Morning to all of you out there... Nice day isn't it?....

I guess I would better start this Irony section to prevent all of you from waiting... hehe. Emmm actually, I just don't know what to write here. Not much to say, but have to said it. Emmm....

Let me ask all of you. Are you happy with your life?... Happy with your work?.. Does it pay you enough?. Do you have enough time with your family? Do you think that you have everything that you could ever want? And life couldn't be better?..

If you answer 'YES' to all those answer or at least contented with the life that you have right now, WHAT if one of these days bad things happened?

What if you lose all that in just a split second?. Never have you expected nor did you think it'll happened to you. But bad things do happened no matter who you are.

WHAT if you got laid off with 24 hours notice for a little mistakes that you made without you realizing it? With no warning and no sign. By the the time you realized it, it'll be too late.

What's your life gonna be?. How are you going to provide for your family, your children education, daily expenses etc?.

Then, you thought that you've got a great job, with a great company, good boss, nice colleagues, good pay and you feel as if you are on top of the world. And suddenly you got nothing?

What was great turn to be not so great at all. What security you felt earlier doesn't make you so secure anymore. Basically you have nothing at all. You are left out there with no one to turn too, nothing to hold on too, and you only have you.

And yet, you have been dedicating all your life to the company that now laid you off. What a nice attitude.

How are you going to face it?.

Ironic isn't it?..

And one other thing that I realized, that in life we have got to have options. We have to make that options happened. We are not borne the way we are, we learn through the process of life. We make choices from options that's been laid in front of us. And be became the way we are today. And now you said that we've got no options?. There'll always be options as long as you open your eyes, open your mind and search through it. It never too late to choose. Better late than never right?. OR are you too afraid to choose? If you are, think bout this...

" Would it effects, if you did not make the decision?"

" What would you do if you are not afraid?"

Think 'bout that...

Have a nice day!.

P/S: Read " Who Moved My Cheese." to get a better picture of life and to understand whatever I said more...:) (not much of a reader are you??..)