Imagine you're in London's Heathrow Airport. While you're waiting for your flight, you notice a kiosk selling shortbread cookies. You buy a box, put them in your traveling bag and then you patiently search for an available seat so you can sit down and enjoy your cookies. Finally you find a seat next to a gentleman. You reach down into ur traveling bag & pull out your box of shortbread cookies. As you do so, u notice that the gentleman starts watching you intensely. He stares as u open the box & his eyes follow your hand as you pick up the cookie & bring it to your mouth.

Just then he reaches over & takes one of ur cookies from the box, & eats it! You're more than a little surprised at this. Actually, u're at a loss for words. Not only does he take one cookie, but he alternates with you.

For every one cookie you take, he takes one. Now what's ur immediate impression of this guy? Crazy? Greedy? He's got some nerve? Can you imagine the words u might use to describe this man to your associates back at the office? Meanwhile, you both continue eating the cookies until there's just one left. To your surprise, the man

reaches over and takes it. But then he does something unexpected.

He breaks it in half, and gives half to you.

After he's finished with his half he gets up, and without a word, he leaves. You think to yourself, "Did this really

happen?" You're left sitting there dumbfounded & still hungry. So you go back to the kiosk & buy another box of cookies.U then return to ur seat & begin opening ur new box of cookies when you glance down into ur traveling bag.

Sitting there in ur bag is ur original box of cookies, still unopened. Only then do you realize that when you reached down earlier, you had reached into the other man's bag, and grabbed his box of cookies by mistake. Now what do you think of the man? Generous? Tolerant?

You've  just experienced a profound paradigm shift. You're seeing things from a new point of view. Is it time to change your point of view?

MORAL: Now, think of this story as it relates to your life. Seeing things from a new point of view can be very enlightening. Think outside the box. Don't settle for the status quo. Be open to suggestions. Things may not be what they seem.