What You Say About Yourself Makes All The Difference!

This is a amazing lesson about label people put on us. This post is written by Daniel Strohli from the Tony’s Build Your Brand Bootcamp group. It is so good that I couldn’t help but to repost it here.

During a prank, a student stuck a paper on his classmate’s back that said “I’m stupid”, and asked the rest of the class not to tell the boy.

THUS THE STUDENTS BEGAN LAUGHING.

Came afternoon math class started, their teacher wrote a difficult question on the board.

No one was able to answer it except the boy with the sticker on his back.

Surrounded by the unexplained giggles, he walked toward the board and solved the problem.

The teacher asked the class to clap for him and remove the paper on his back.

She told him: “It seems that you did not know about the paper your classmate has pasted on your back.”

Then the teacher looked at the rest of the class and said:

“Before I give you a punishment, let me tell you two things:

LESSON 1: LABELS

First, throughout Life, people will put labels on you with many nasty words to stop your progress.

Had your classmate known about the paper, he would not have gotten up to answer the question.

๐—”๐—น๐—น ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—Ÿ๐—ถ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜€ ๐—ฝ๐—ฒ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ ๐—ด๐—ถ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ถ๐˜‡๐—ฒ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ผ๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ป๐—ถ๐˜๐˜† ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ป, ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜„ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ณ.

LESSON 2: LOYAL FRIENDS

Second, it is clear that he does not have a single loyal friend among you all to tell him about the sticker.

It’s not the number of friends you have that counts – it’s the loyal friends you share your heart with & you can count on, especially during hard times that matters.

๐—œ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ป’๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ธ, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚, ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ผ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜‚๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚, ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ผ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฒ.

Always have each other’s backs.

Remember, what you say about yourself makes all the difference!

Don’t look backward you’re not going in that direction!

In summary, I would say the key takeaway I have is don’t be restricted by the labels others give to you!


To Your Success,
Keith Choy

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