The crow, the Pitcher and Effort !

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• The Crow and the Pitcher
• The Proverb
• The drop or the Pebble

The crow and the Pitcher

The Crow and the Pitcher

A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it. He tried, and he tried, but at last had to give up in despair. Then a thought came to him, and he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. At last, at last, he saw the water mount up near him, and after casting in a few more pebbles he was able to quench his thirst and save his life.
The moral of the story is ' Little by little does the trick.'

The Proverb: I also found a proverb with the same message, 'Many drops make an ocean'.

The drop or the pebble. Is all of this really true? I found it to be true in the area of losing weight. I started to walk for half an hour everyday (except Sundays). I soon discovered that I sarted to loose inches. Over a period of months these inches turned into Kilograms. I weighed 91 Kilograms in May 2007 and I had come down to 84 Kilograms in the month of August 2007 - 7 kilograms! Wow! I am overwhelmed!

I also started to experiment with increasing my savings. I started to save about a $100 every month for the last two years and you can calculate what it has amounted to by now. I can now think of investing this money in a Mutual Fund which will give me good returns in the period of a year.

I am trying another experiment now on the same lines. This time in selling e-books filled with valuable information for a small amount. I will let you know in my next issue the progress on this experiment. (Want to know about my experiment?)

You might want to try something similar in your life for your goals, what with the New Year approaching. Your new resolutions will turn out to be a great success!

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