Quality Is Never An Accident. It Is Always The Result Of Intelligent Effort.
Excellence without effort is as futile as progress without preparation.
The road to success is not full of roses. It also has thorns. Our determination and efforts must overcome different obstacles and challenges.
In order to achieve every goal and make every dream come true, we must take small steps every day, because it is those steps that bring us closer to our goal, it is these steps that lead us to success.
The first step is decisive, and each step we take afterward brings us closer to where we want to go. We can make all our wishes and dreams come true, one step at a time.
The key to reaching our goals lies in the small steps we take every day. The number of steps we must take in order to achieve our goals will depend on the magnitude of our goal.
Once upon a time, there was an old man who used to go to the seaside every morning to do his writing. He had a habit of walking along the beautiful beach before starting his work. One beautiful Sunday as per his morning ritual, he went to the seashore and started walking along the shore. As he moved ahead, he came along a stretch on which thousands of starfish had washed up. He found the beach littered with starfish as far as the eye could see, stretching in both directions.
Off in the distance, the old man noticed a little girl approaching. As the girl walked, she paused every so often. When she came closer, the old man could see that she was occasionally bending down to pick up an object and throw it into the sea.
The little girl came a bit closer and the old man called out, “Good Morning little princess!!! May I ask what it is that you are doing?” The pretty little girl paused, looked up, and replied, “Throwing starfish into the sea.” The little girl continued her job of picking and throwing back the starfishes into the sea.
“I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the sea?”, asked the old man.
To this, the little girl replied, “The tide has washed them up onto the beach and they can’t return back to the sea by themselves. When the sun gets high, they will die, unless I throw them back into the water.”
Upon hearing this, the old man commented, ‘But, little girl, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? There must be tens of thousands of starfish on this beach. I’m afraid you won’t really be able to make much of a difference!”
The girl bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she turned towards the old man, gave a sweet smile, and said, “I made a difference to that one!”
I was reading an article written by Nicole Hilbig where she has mentioned the competitive skills which are needed to face the competition in the day to come. This article is an eye-opener and is based on facts.
Thanks for reading Shameem Anwar and your precious time!
