”Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich” (Proverbs 10:4, NLT).
A leaf-cutting ant may carry up to fifty times its own weight more than a hundred metres. That’s the equivalent of an 80 kg man carrying four tonnes on his back for ten kilometres!
In a single summer, a large colony of ants may excavate 14 to 18 tonnes of earth to make a nest, and carry two tonnes of material back into the nest for food.
It can make as many as four round trips a day to food sources that may be more than 120 metres from the nest. That’s roughly equivalent to a person walking 110 km.
If the ant had the stride of a man, it would be capable of bursts of speed in excess of 100 km per hour, and would walk normally at a speed of 32 km per hour. (And you think you have it rough!)
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer and gathered her food in the harvest. How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.
—Proverbs 6:6-11
One thing about an ant you can count on: he always gives his best and pulls his share of the load.
Teach your kids that their reputation will never rise above their work ethic, and how people view them as workers. Being spiritual does not make you cynical.
The success of the Walt Disney empire is based on the philosophy of its founder: **‘Whatever you do, do it so well that when people see you do it, they’ll want to come back and see you do it, and they’ll want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.’ **
Teach your children to work hard, always finish the job, and always give their best. If they learn that lesson well, you won’t have to teach them much about success—it will be their constant companion.
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