A "Black Swan Event" is when the unexpected occurs, causing a huge mindshift and change in how the world works. People never imagined that Black Swans existed, until the discovery of the first Black Swan... (as per book "The Black Swan", by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007, that sold over 3 million copies)

Is a perception change the next Black Swan Event? Consider that by changing perception we might change the world. Look at everyday things from different angles. Find beauty in the unexpected...
Change our thinking, change our actions, change our world!

See that all people are part of God's puzzle and have something to give. Black swans do exist. The ugly duckling was actually a swan who needed to discover himself and where he fitted and be who he was meant to be. To the last, the lost and the least, you are beautiful as you are.
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Tuesday 29 January 2013

The Gossip Trap

Imagine the following:

Grace walked into the building for her first day of work at a new job. She paused at the coffee area and asked for directions to get to her office. The young lady with laughing green eyes and short brown hair said, good morning, are you new, pleased to meet you, I'm Jessie, and they had a brief but pleasant chat, before Grace went on through to her office. Later in the morning, Grace's manager, Susan, came past and told Grace she'd take her around to meet her fellow colleagues. Everyone was very friendly and Grace felt quite happy to be working for this company. On their rounds, she spied Jessie, the young lady she had chatted to when she first arrived this morning, and said to Susan, oh, I met her this morning. You don't want to mix with her, Susan frowned, she is trouble and I hear rumours all the time from that office about what a bully she is. Grace paused and glanced quickly in Jessie's direction in surprise. She seemed pleasant enough this morning, she said nervously. Grace avoided Jessie's goodbye on the way out to her car that afternoon, though she saw the hurt expression in Jessie's eyes before she turned away.

A few months later, Grace is in a meeting with Susan discussing workplace bullying and counter measures that can be implemented to eliminate this devastating practice. In the office next door, two people have recently been suspended for spreading unfounded, malicious gossip about a few people, including Jessie who resigned the week before. Grace crumbles internally, thinking if only she had followed her heart and gut instinct and had given Jessie a chance. She has always told herself not to allow gossip to cloud her judgement of someone, yet, due to a vague statement from someone who heard something from someone else, she fell into the bullies' trap.

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