Positive News – Edition XXVI

MICROSOFT JAPAN GAVE WORKERS THREE DAY WEEKENDS. PRODUCTIVITY JUMPED 40 PER CENT

General Images of Tokyo's Business District Ahead Of PPI FiguresThe company has released the results of the ‘Work-Life Choice Challenge 2019 Summer’ study, which saw offices shut every Friday for the month of August.

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World’s First Married Couple With Down Syndrome Still Madly in Love After 27 Years

downssyndrome08nov2019Twenty-seven years after tying the knot, the world’s first married couple with Down syndrome are still as happy as ever.

Gareth and Deana Tobias first locked eyes across a crowded room at their local community center in Cumbria, England. It was 1981. According to Metro, Gareth was just 17; Deana was two years his senior.

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5 Inspiring Indian Villages That Are Smashing Stereotypes!

villages08nov2019“There were 328 BPL (Below Poverty Line) families in the village. They had neither house nor land. I could uplift them to APL (Above Poverty Line). I think as a Sarpanch that was my biggest achievement and my happiest memory.”

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Italy becomes first country to make climate change lessons compulsory for all children

climate-protest-italy08nov2019‘I want to make the Italian education system the first that puts the environment and society at the core of everything we learn in school,’ says minister

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As Climate Change Sets To Wipe Out Bengal Tigers, These School Kids Are Taking Charge

tiger08novA 2019 report from United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has warned that the rising sea levels and climate change will eventually wipe out the Sundarbans, which is one of the world’s largest natural habitats and home to the endangered Bengal tiger.

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Meet the Rajasthan cop who built a school to educate 450 children who used to beg on the streets

rajhastancop08nov2019Churu-based Dharamveer Jakhar has started a free school, Apni Pathshala, for underprivileged kids in his neighbourhood. The cop provides learning and school supplies, and wants to ensure children don’t get bogged down by circumstances.

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Fable : Works in Progress

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One day one person climbed up a mountain where a hermit woman was meditating, she  had taken refuge and was asked:

– What are you doing here alone in such a solitude place? To which she replied:

– I have a lots of work.

– And how can you have so much work? I don’t see anything around you here…?

– I have to train two hawks and two eagles, assure two rabbits, discipline one snake, motivate a donkey and tame a lion…

– And, where have they gone that I don’t see them?

– I have them all inside here within me…!!

✓ The hawks stare on everything that is presented to me, good or bad, I have to work on them to see only good things. They are my eyes.

✓ The two eagles with their claws hurt and destroy, I have to train them not to hurt. They are my hands.

✓ Rabbits want to go where they want, at the same time they do not want to face difficult situations, I have to teach them to be calm even if there is suffering or stumbling.  They are my feet.

✓ The donkey is always tired, stubborn and does not want to carry the load each time I walk. That is my body!

✓ The most difficult to tame is the “snake.”  Although it is locked in a strong cage with 32 bars, it is always ready to sting, bite and poison anyone nearby. I have to discipline it…  that’s my tongue.

✓ I also have one Lion.  Oh … how proud, vain, he thinks that “he is the king.” I have to tame him. And that’s my ego.

As you see, my friend, I have  lots of work.

Interpretation : This fable shows us how we all have many things to work on in our own lives for life is indeed always a work in progress.

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