Yes, I'm stealing everything from the Company Newsletter today. There are some real gems:
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. The conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and in life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the alumni had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:
"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it's normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, this may be the source of your problems and stress.
"What you all really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups and were sizing up each other's.
"Now consider this: Life is the coffee. Jobs, money, and position in society are the cups. They are the tools that hold and contain life. They do not change the quality of life. Don't let the cup dictate how the coffee is going to taste."
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