One of my favorite children’s movies is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. It’s about a candy maker who issues five gold tickets in various chocolate bars he sells so a child can become a partner in his business and help them to grow their business. What makes it interesting is how the five children who found golden tickets react to all the choices with which they are presented at the plant and how they make their decisions.
How many of you have green thumbs and can grow almost everything? How many of you have brown thumbs and wish you could grow anything?
Almost everyone with whom I have talked, listened to or read about has a different perspective on what they define as a burden in their life and how they manage or mismanage it. Reasons for such happenings are often blamed on others or circumstances as the cause. Most solutions they sought were based on what worked for others in similar situations but still left them with corrections that didn’t quite solve their dilemma.
