PROVE IT!
A great story has made the rounds about a scrawny, seemingly undernourished old man who entered a restaurant and asked who he needed to see to get a job at a nearby lumberjack camp. "You won't need to go far," the restaurant owner replied as he pointed to a nearby booth. "The supervisor is having lunch right over there."
The job seeker approached the supervisor and exclaimed, "I'm looking for a lumberjack job." The boss politely tried to talk him out of the idea. Surely this weak old man wouldn't be able to fell a tree let alone keep up with the daily quotas. "Give me a few minutes of your time and I'll show you what I can do," suggested the man.
When the two arrived at a grove needing to be cleared, the slender, persistent old man picked up an ax and proceeded to chop down a huge tree in record time.
"That's incredible," the boss said. "Where did you learn to fell trees like that?"
"Well," said the old man, "you've heard of the Sahara Forest?" Hesitantly the boss replied, "Don't you mean the Sahara Desert?" The old man produced a smile and said, "Sure, that's what it's called now."
Achievers are producers. They understand the world will not recognize them for what they could have done, should have done or would have done. Recognition is experienced by proving what you can do by doing it.
- Anonymous
