The Hot Chocolate Story - Making your Reality an Opportunity to change

A group of graduates, well established in their careers, were talking at a reunion and decided to go visit their old university professor, now retired. During their visit, the conversation turned to complaints about stress in their work and lives. 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: "Notice that all the nice looking expensive cups were taken, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is 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 but you consciously went for the best cups... and then you began eyeing each others cups.

Now consider this: Life is the hot chocolate, your job, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain life. Does the cup you have define or change who you are or the quality of life you have? Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the hot chocolate we have.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything that they have.

1. Live simply.
2. Love generously.
3. Care deeply.
4. Speak kindly.
5. Give Thanks for your Blessings.
6. Enjoy your Hot Chocolate.

For the next 7 – 30 days try this experiment and you will be amazed before you are half way through at what happens.

Daily keep a log of making the best of everything you have.
Find something in your life to be grateful for.
Smile for no good reason.
Be complementary to people you usually don’t speak to, by noticing something about that person you like: shoes, hair, finger nails, the job they did, etc.

Notice what you notice as you train your mind to be more grateful & happier, than you already are.

Making the Best of the Reality You Have sets the Stage for What You Want to Arrive at your Feet Unexpectedly!