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Written by John Wheelwright

Tuesday, 28 October 2008 07:58

Daily I got hundreds of emails from Marketing gurus, investment and stockmarket advisers, news articles from around the world and offers from dozens of companies to try their products. It's my way to stay in the loop. Like many of you I quickly scan the subject line and the sender and click delete. Except for the nes that catch my eye. Because that's what it is all about. Catching someone's attention. The famous A in AIDA. Yesterday I caught this story that made me stop and think. I hope it does the same for you.

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old and favorite university professor, now retired.

During their visit, the conversation quickly turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives, especially relationships.

Offering his guests hot chocolate, the professor went into the kitchen and returned with a large pot of hot chocolate and an assortment of cups - porcelain, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the hot chocolate.

When they all had a cup of hot chocolate in hand, the professor said:
'Do you notice that you all took the nice, expensive cups, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones?" While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, it is also the source of your problems and stress.

The cup that you 're drinking from adds nothing to the quality of the hot chocolate. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was hot chocolate, not the cup; yet you consciously added non existent value and went for the best cups.
And next you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate; your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are merely tools to hold and contain life. "He who dies with the most toys, wins............. is a big fat lie!"

The cup you have does not define, nor change the quality of life you have.
Often by concentrating mostly on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate Nature has provided us. Nature makes the hot chocolate, Man chooses the cups.

Believe me, it's a fact: The happiest people don't have the best of everything, but enough to go around comfortably. They just make the best of everything that they have.

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly. And enjoy your hot chocolate!! A long cold winter is ahead of us.

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