You are only good as your values.
Core values are personal values that guide you when making important decisions and doing work. To develop your personal and professional goals, determine the values that are meaningful in your life. It can help you find jobs and companies that align with your ideals.
For newbies, if you are interested in turning your internship into a job offer, it’s important to know exactly what employers look for when hiring new full-time employees. In addition to relevant skills, employers seek employees who have personal values, characteristics, and personality traits that spell success.
Good personal values are what make the foundation for a good employee, and a good human being.
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Here is a selection of few moral simple short stories that will teach the importance of certain values. Each story with a moral represents a valuable lesson.
These short stories are for everyone to read and gain positive energy from it.
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#1. Honesty is the best policy
Once upon a time, there lived a woodcutter, Ramu. He lived a very simple life. He was poor but he was a good man, and worked hard. One day, while chopping down a branch, Ramu’s axe slipped and fell into the adjacent river. He tried searching for his axe, but all in vain.
He sat down by the river bank and started weeping. Hearing his cries, an angel appeared and promised to help him find his axe. She dove into the water and retrieved an axe completely made of gold. Ramu said that this wasn’t his axe and refused to accept it.
The angel dove again and returned with a silver axe, Ramu refused again and said that his axe was made of steel.
The angel went into the water for one last time and returned with Ramu’s axe. Elated, Ramu thanked the angel profusely.
Impressed by his simplicity and honesty, the angel decides to give Ramu the gold and silver axe too. Ramu went home happily.
Moral: Honesty is the best policy.
#2. Autograph your work with excellence
Once upon a time, a gentleman visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God.
Suddenly, he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, “Do you need two statues of the same idol?”
“No,” said the sculptor without looking up, “We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage.”
The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. “Where is the damage?” he asked.
“There is a scratch on the nose of the idol.” said the sculptor, still busy with his work.
“Where are you going to install the idol?”
The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high.
“If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?” the gentleman asked.
The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said,
“I know it and God knows it!”
Moral: Excellence is a drive from inside, not outside. The desire to excel should be exclusive of the fact whether someone appreciates it or not. Excel at a task today – not necessarily for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction.”
#3. Self-Appraisal
Once upon a time, a little boy went into a drug store, reached for a soda carton and pulled it over to the telephone. He climbed onto the carton so that he could reach the buttons on the phone and proceeded to punch in seven digits (phone numbers). The store-owner observed and listened to the conversation.
Boy: ‘Lady, Can you give me the job of cutting your lawn?
Woman: (at the other end of the phone line): ‘I already have someone to cut my lawn.’
Boy: ‘Lady, I will cut your lawn for half the price of the person who cuts your lawn now.’
Woman: I’m very satisfied with the person who is presently cutting my lawn.
Boy: (with more perseverance): ‘Lady, I’ll even sweep your curb and your sidewalk, so on Sunday you will have the prettiest lawn in all of Palm beach, Florida.’
Woman: No, thank you.
With a smile on his face, the little boy replaced the receiver. The store-owner, who was listening to all this, walked over to the boy.
Store Owner: ‘Son… I like your attitude; I like that positive spirit and would like to offer you a job.’
Boy: ‘No thanks.’
Store Owner: But you were really pleading for one.
Boy: No Sir, I was just checking my performance at the Job I already have. I am the one who is working for that lady I was talking to!’
Moral: This is what we call ‘Self Appraisal’. Every time, if we don’t get ahead of others, we blame others for it. We should look to our self, find our own weaknesses and work hard to turn them into strengths. Always, work not just hard but smart, be honest, and work with full dedication. It will definitely pay, and much higher.
#4. Learn to Appreciate
Once upon a time, there was a man who was very helpful, kindhearted, and generous. He was a man who will help someone without asking anything to pay him back. He will help someone because he wants to and he loves to.
One day while walking into a dusty road, this man saw a purse, so he picked it up and noticed that the purse was empty. Suddenly a woman with a policeman shows up and gets him arrested.
The woman kept on asking where did he hide her money but the man replied, “It was empty when I found it, Mam.”
The woman yelled at him, “Please give it back, It’s for my son’s school fees.” The man noticed that the woman really felt sad, so he handed all his money. He could say that the woman was a single mother.
The man said, “Take these, sorry for the inconvenience.” The woman left and a policeman held the man for further questioning. The woman was very happy but when she counted her money, later on, it was doubled, she was shocked.
One day while the woman was going to pay her son’s school fees towards the school, she noticed that some skinny man was walking behind her. She thought that he may rob her, so she approached a policeman standing nearby. He was the same policeman, who she took along to inquire about her purse.
The woman told him about the man following her, but suddenly they saw that man collapsing. They ran at him and saw that he was the same man whom they arrested a few days back for stealing a purse.
He looked very weak and the woman was confused. The policeman said to the woman, “He didn’t return your money, he gave you his money that day. He wasn’t the thief but hearing about you son’s school fees, he felt sad and gave you his money.”
Later, they helped the man stand up, and the man told the woman, “Please go ahead and pay your son’s school fees, I saw you and followed you to be sure that no one steals your son’s school fees.” The woman was speechless.
Moral: Be Kind and Generous. Life gives you strange experiences, sometime it shocks you and sometimes it may surprise you. We end up making wrong judgments or mistakes in our anger, desperation and frustration. However, when you get a second chance, correct your mistakes and return the favor. Learn to Appreciate what you are given.
More on this in future blogs.
Enjoy and wish you all success!
