WORTH READING 16 Dec 2005

Change Your Point of View
--- Joe Gracia

Imagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport. While you're waiting for
your
flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box,
put
them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an
available
seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies.Finally you find a seat
next to a gentleman. You reach down into your traveling bag and pull out
your
box of shortbread cookies.

As you do so, you notice that the gentleman starts watching you
intensely.
He stares as you open the box and his eyes follow your hand as you pick
up
the cookie and bring it to your mouth. Just then he reaches over and
takes
one of your cookies from the box, and eats it! You're more than a little
surprised at this. Actually, you're at a loss for words. Not only does
he
take one cookie, but he alternates with you. For every one cookie you
take, he takes one.

Now, what's your immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's
got
some nerve?! Can you imagine the words you might use to describe this
man
to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue
eating
the
cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man reaches
over
and takes it. But then he does something unexpected. He breaks it in
half,
and gives half to you. After he's finished with his half he gets up, and
without a word, he leaves.

You think to yourself, "Did this really happen?" You're left sitting
there
dumbfounded and still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk and buy
another
box of cookies. You then return to your seat and begin opening your new
box
of cookies when you glance down into your traveling bag. Sitting there
in
your bag is your original box of ookies -- still unopened.

Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had
reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by
mistake.
Now
what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant? You've just
experienced a
profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view.

Is it time to change your point of view?

Now, think of this story as it relates to your life . Seeing things from
a
new point of view can be very enlightening. Think outside the box. Don't
settle for the status quo. Be open to suggestions. Things may not be
what
they seem.

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