Swishing Flies
I live in the in the mountains. We keep horses in our pastures during the summer. During hot summer days you’ll often see them gathered together, one facing one way, the other facing the other. If there are three or four, they alternate, head to rump to head to rump, head to rump. It’s a funny to see, but there’s a reason.
During hot sweltering days, flies multiply and love to buzz around a horse’s moist eyes. Horses don’t have hands to shoo them away. They have a tail, but it doesn’t reach far enough. To solve this problem, the horses team up. They stand front to back and swish their tails to shoo away flies from the face of their partners. They do something for another that they can’t do for themselves. In return, their partners do the same for them.
You know horses can’t talk. They didn’t have a meeting one day and say, “if you swish your tail for me, I’ll swish my tail for you.” They just started doing it and it worked. But one horse had to start the whole thing.
It had to have started by just one horse positioning itself correctly and starting to swish its tail for its pasture mate. Then the other horse got the idea and started reciprocating. It must have grown from there.
The first horse did something for the other horse before it got anything in return. It took a chance that the other horse would catch on and reciprocate. Does that sound like something most people are likely to do?
This principal was taught over 2,000 years ago, but not by horses. It’s very powerful if you learn how to use it correctly. “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Sound familiar? You can get help, if you’re willing to ‘give’ help.
Learn how to use this principal in a powerful way by reading the ebook “5 Small Things; Principals of Prosperity”. Just click on the link to the top right of this post.
