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A Truth Pick is a short, sharp commentary designed to extract 'Truth' from a Quote, pithy saying, epigram or graffiti. I send these out about 2-3 times per week. My goal is to see if they strike a chord with anyone and if they do, to continue generating them.
Don't judge each day
by the harvest you reap,
but by the seeds you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Unknowingly, we come to expect immediate payoff in exchange for present effort.
Larger tasks separate the reward from the effort, the greater the task the longer the separation, and typically, the larger the reward.
The larger tasks, the lifelong ones, disconnect reward entirely from our effort. Like the planting of an olive grove, the bulk of the reward lies beyond our life span.
The size of the task relates not to the effort, but to the ultimate payoff. The result of planting olive trees, like good deeds quietly done, lives on beyond our ken.
To measure ourselves, or others, only by the trophies of achievement, ignores our investments silently gathering strength.
After pebbles have sunk to the bottom, we remember their size by the ripples.
(c) 2002 Peter de Jager - Pdejager@truthpicks.com
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