Believe is the Key (The elephant rope)

    On a certain day, a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped confused by the fact that the enormous creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was quite obvious that the elephants could break away at anytime from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

    He saw a trainer nearby and asked why the animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well, when they were very young and much smaller, we used the same rope to tie them and at that age, it was enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.” The trainer explained.

   The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believe they couldn’t, they were stuck right were they were.

   Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot achieve something simply because  we failed at it once before? Some of us don’t even attempt a new project because we already have that mentality that it won’t be successful. We all need to let go of the failure mentality. The fact that we failed to achieve something in the past doesn’t mean we cannot achieve that same thing today. We should never give up the struggle in life. At every moment in life regardless of whatever the challenge we may be facing, Self-believe is the key.