First be, what you preach

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Once there was a teacher who was discussing with her students about the side effects of getting angry. She told them that anger was the worst emotion and everyone should leave the company of this strong emotion. She told them different ways by which they could control it.

One day, a student of her class had not completed his homework, so the teacher got angry, and started scolding him. The day prior to this she was telling the students not to get angry under any circumstance, but now she was the one getting angry on them. 

Isn't this a tragic irony?
I don't understand myself and go out to teach others. That's the kind of teacher I am!

ARE YOU SUCH KIND OF A TEACHER?

I have a short story for you, to make you understand this well.
Once a woman came to a wise man with his son.
She said, “This boy eats a lot of sugar. I have tried all the ways to stop him but he never listens to me. My words fall on deaf ears all the time. What should I do? I am really disturbed.”

The wise man told her to come back in a week. When she returned after a week, he postponed it further and told her to come back after 2 weeks. After two weeks, the wise guy told the boy, “I forbid you from eating more sugar than that I have permitted”.
The women asked the wise guy, why he had taken so much unnecessary time and delay before giving such a simple order. The wise man told her, that he had to see whether he himself could cut down on the use of sugar, before ordering someone else to do it. 

Famous Indian Bollywood actor, Akshay Kumar urges everybody to wake up early in the morning, find time for oneself and regularly exercise to remain fit. Before advising this to others, he first implemented all this on himself and that is why his recommendation is taken seriously by youngsters. He imbibed these values in himself and then went on to enlighten and motivate people around him. Many youngsters draw motivation from him today.

The day people find out that we do not practice what we preach, they would forget all the lessons we taught them.

DO YOU WANT THAT TO HAPPEN?

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