Are you Setting your Goals High Enough?

As we enter the new year with the talk of resolutions abound, I am reminded of a wonderful story that has been around for centuries. An old fisherman would walk out to the end of the pier every day. With him he took his rod, reel and a dirty old stick that was broken off at exactly ten inches. Each day he would drop his fishing line into the water. When he would reel in a fish, he would hold it up to the dirty old stick and if it was bigger than 10 inches, he would throw it back. If it was smaller than his stick, he would keep it and throw it in his bucket.

One day, someone who had fished next to the old man was intrigued that he never kept a big one asked, “Old man. How come you are so different from every other person who goes fishing? Everyone else keeps the big ones and throws out the little ones. You do the opposite and keep the little ones. Is it because the little ones taste better?”

The old man replied, “No, it’s my frying pan. It is only 10 inches.”

How many goals have you not set or how many goals have you not accomplished because your frying pan is only 10 inches? There is a little fisherman in every one of us.

“Shoot for the moon and even if you miss you will still be among the stars.”
– Les Brown (American author, entrepreneur and motivational speaker)