Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re probably right. Henry Ford 1863 – 1947 Like most children, I heard Aesop’s Fable about the Tortoise and the Hare when I was growing up. The thing I remember most about the story was the moral: “Slow and steady wins the race.” But there’s an equally important lesson that I hadn’t recognized until I recently read the fable again. For your benefit, here’s the story; see if you can spot the lesson I’d failed to grasp all these years. A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and …
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Energy and persistence conquer all things. Benjamin Franklin 1706 – 1790 There was a young man I was coaching with the aim of helping him achieve his goals. Unfortunately, we reached a point where we were both a bit frustrated: looking back over the previous two years, we each realized that he hadn’t achieved the amount of progress he wanted. In an effort to get him back on track and moving consistently toward his goals, I gave him an assignment to complete before our next session. I asked him to study the Grand Canyon and Warren Buffet and give me …
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How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly. Ernest Hemingway 1899 – 1961 I was having lunch out with my daughter a few weeks ago and I observed a man at a nearby table. He was obese. There’s no polite way to say it; he was extremely overweight and looked very unhealthy. I wondered how he could have allowed himself to get in that condition. As I was thinking about that man, a woman was seated at a table near his. She was probably in her late forties and was very trim and impeccably dressed. She was the …
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