Quite some time ago I discussed the question of whether it was better to be a pig rather than a chook. At that time I came down heavily in favour of being a pig. You see I reckoned that when you are trying to achieve goals the pig wins hands down.
And why?
Simple, think about a yummy bacon and eggs breakfast. Both the pig and the chook play a part in providing it. The difference is that the hen is merely involved whereas the pig is committed!
But when I was staying on a friend’s farm recently I got to participate in the twice daily chore of feeding their five chooks… and this is a photo of four-fifths of them.
Looking at them as they happily scratched away during the middle of the day when there was no prospect of a free food handout from humans got me thinking.
Maybe I should be a chook!
And why so is that?
Well, it’s kinda simple really. You see, no matter how many times they had scratched over a piece of ground previously they always had another go at the same patch the next day. Now, those chooks could have said “No, I won’t scratch there today coz I did so yesterday so there won’t be anything there.”
But guess what? Invariably, their re-scratching of that same patch produced results!
And that’s the lesson there for you and me… it’s worth having another go at old ideas, or old customers, or old just about anything. New is not necessarily better!
It pays to be a chook!
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