Whose voice are you listening to?

Today’s post I will like to tell a joke that I heard a while back but it has tremen­dous value in it? So with­out fur­ther ado let me tell you the story of the leop­ard, the dog and the monkey.

A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faith­ful pet dog along for com­pany. One day the dog starts chas­ing but­ter­flies and before long he dis­cov­ers that he is lost. So, wan­der­ing about he notices a leop­ard head­ing rapidly in his direc­tion with the obvi­ous inten­tion of hav­ing lunch.

The dog thinks, “Boy, I’m in deep doo doo now.”

Then he noticed some bones on the ground close by, and imme­di­ately set­tles down to chew on the bones with his back to the approach­ing cat.

Just as the leop­ard is about to leap, the dog exclaims loudly, “Man, that was one deli­cious leop­ard. I won­der if there are any more around here?”

Hear­ing this the leop­ard halts his attack in mid stride, as a look of ter­ror comes over him, and slinks away into the trees. “Whew”, says the leop­ard. “That was close. That dog nearly had me.”

Mean­while, a mon­key who had been watch­ing the whole scene from a nearby tree, fig­ures he can put this knowl­edge to good use and trade it for pro­tec­tion from the leop­ard. So, off he goes.

But the dog saw him head­ing after the leop­ard with great speed, and fig­ured that some­thing must be up.

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The mon­key soon catches up with the leop­ard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for him­self with the leopard.

The cat is furi­ous at being made a fool of and says, “Here mon­key, hop on my back and see what’s going to hap­pen to that con­niv­ing canine.”

Now the dog sees the leop­ard com­ing with the mon­key on his back, and thinks,” What am I going to do now?”

But instead of run­ning, the dog sits down with his back to his attack­ers pre­tend­ing he hasn’t seen them yet.

And just when they get close enough to hear, the dog says, “Where’s that mon­key. I just can never trust him. I sent him off half an hour ago to bring me another leop­ard, and he’s still not back!!”

Ok so what can we learn from the story? We see the impor­tance of fil­ter­ing what peo­ple are say­ing to us! If we believe every­thing peo­ple are say­ing about us, it can have seri­ous con­se­quences in the way we decide to live our life. That leop­ard could have eaten that dog so eas­ily if he had only learnt to think for him­self. Another thing we can learn from this story is that not every­one who comes to tell us some­thing good may have the right inten­tion as well!! The mon­key went to talk to the leop­ard pri­mar­ily so that he can be saved from the leop­ard! He wasn’t con­cerned about the leop­ard, all he was con­cerned about was not being eaten by the leop­ard! It’s the same way with peo­ple. Some of us may have friends or asso­ciates who may appear to be really nice to us but we aren’t sure what there true inten­tions are!!!

We need to be care­ful of the voices that we allow to enter our mind. One of my men­tors said that you can’t stop  the birds from fly­ing over your head but you sure can stop them from build­ing a nest there!! What he meant by that is that you can’t stop peo­ple from speak­ing about you but you do have the power to decide whether you allow what is being said about you to impact you or dis­tract you from what it is you are try­ing to achieve!!! So my ques­tion to you is whose voice are you lis­ten­ing to?

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