Tej Kohli presents a wonderful story that explains how a well-timed idea can help you escape any difficulty...

Once upon a time, in a faraway land there lived a king who never wore shoes. He was always bruising and scraping his royal feet. One day, completely exasperated with this problem, he turned to one of his loyal ministers and ordered: “I want you to carpet the entire kingdom by tomorrow morning, or you will be beheaded!”
 

The poor minister sat up the entire night thinking about this unachievable task, and knowing very well that he would surely lose his head the coming morning. Suddenly, just as the sun began to rise, his fear turned into joy. He got an idea. Leaping from his bed, he ran to the royal carpetorium.
 

When the king awoke the next morning he jumped quickly out of bed and hustled to the window to view his carpet covered kingdom. Seeing not one inch of carpet anywhere he began bellowing for the minister roaring wildly. “Minister, Where's my minister? I'll chop his head!”
 

At that very moment, the minister appeared at the king's door holding a pair of very foreign objects in his hands. “Oh your highness, please be so kind as to try these first,” he pleaded. The king agreed, and in the next moment the minister slipped the world's first pair of carpet slippers onto the king's royal feet.
 

Instantly the king's anger turned to delight. Shuffling around the room with the softness of the finest carpet in the kingdom beneath his feet, all he could do was smile with every step.


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