Be an Opportunist

Happy Morning

Dear Friends

Source: Internet

Friends, all of you would have played the game of chess.

Let us see the story behind this game.

This game teaches us how to use the opportunities we come across in life

Playing this game daily improves our concentration, planning,

focus and determination to win the game

Long time ago a king named Shihram ruled over India. He was an autocrat..

A wise man invented the game of chess to show the king how

important everybody is, who lives in his kingdom, even the

smallest among them.

The wise man’s intention was that the king should learn the

importance of a soldiers, citizens and others in his country

The king  enjoyed the game when he played with the wise man..

The king wanted to gift the wise man. He told the treasure,

“Take him to the treasury and ask him to choose whatever he wants”

The wise man thought for a while and said to the king.

"I don't desire any of your treasures. I have a special wish!"

"My wish is to get some wheat! Please put one grain of wheat

on to the first chess square and two on to the second and

keep doubling up the wheat until the last square!"

The king became angry and shouted: "I have offered you all my

treasures and you want just wheat? Do you want to offend me?"

"Oh no!" said the wise man. "I don't want to offend you, my king.

Please respect my wish and you will see that my wish is truly great."

The king called his servants and ordered to put the wheat on the

chess board exactly as the wise man wished.

The servants brought a lot of wheat. It soon filled many rooms

but they realized that they could not fulfil the wise man's wish.

They went to the king and said: "We are unable to fulfil the wise man's wish."

"Why not?" asked the king angry.

They answered: „All the wheat of your kingdom and all the wheat

of other kingdoms is not enough to fulfill this wish."

The king realized that the wise man had given him a lesson again.

He learned that you should never underestimate the small things in life.

The chess board has 64 squares and if you put just one grain

on the first and double up on the next and so on, you will reach

an enormous amount of grain.

1 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x

2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x

2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x

2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2 x 2

If you work this out you get an incredible amount of grain

something like this: 18.446.744.073.709.551.615 around

18.446.744 Trillions of wheat grains.

The man, who invented the game of chess, whoever he was,

has done a great job.

We can create a Win Win situation in our life only when we know to

use the opportunities. Be an Opportunist.

Kind Regards