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THIS WEEKS THOUGHT Milo the Greek - 23rd September 2007
Reading Time 1 minute 44 seconds FOR A PODCAST OF THIS THOUGHT CLICK HERE Or To Subscribe Here
Well I often get some great ideas from the stories I read but this week the story from Peter Thomson (author of the achievers edge) is so good, I'd thought I'd share it as Peter wrote it
Milo the Greek was a remarkable man.
Born in the Greek Colony of Croton in the late 6th century BC he was a six times Olympic champion.
And boy! Was he strong!
One story about his incredible strength tells how he became so – here it is:
To demonstrate his power he told friends that he would lift a full grown cow above his head.
He tried and somehow despite his strength he couldn’t do it.
So he bought a young calf – and picked it up – easily.
Each day, as the calf grew, he picked it up again.
Day by day, week by week, month by month – as the calf grew in size and weight so Milo grew in strength.
Legend has it that - 4 years later he hoisted above his shoulders the now 4˝ years old cow which he carried the length of the arena then killed and ate it.
Ah – now I see how it’s done:
So the way we get ‘strong’ is to start small and increase the difficulty of the task as we continue to practice – make sense doesn’t it?
I wonder if you and I are using this idea enough in our lives.
Get a little bit better at what your practicing
Till next week
David Gardner
THE MUST HAVE
"THE ACHIEVERS EDGE"
By Peter Thompson
More Great CD Programs
Good to Great - Jim Collins 7 Habits - Stephen Covey Discover you Strengths - M Buckingham Richard Branson's Auto biography Brilliant Memory - Dominic O'Brien Think & Grow Rich - Napoleon Hill Freakonomics - Stephen Levitt Getting Things Done - David Allen The Machine That Changed the World Watching the English - Kate Fox
Archives
Milo the Greek
Bluebird - A pint of Ale & water speed record
Visualising an Argument with Alien Bowling
Old Friends lead to New Thoughts
Space Shuttle designed on a horses backside
The Mexican Boatman & "Harvard MBA".
3 Blind Men & An Elephant
Someone Everyone Anyone
No-one
12 Questions to
High Performance
The Bee Can't Fly but No-one told the
bee
The Maverick Mindset of
Baseball
Three Men and a Boat
Stop
Two Cannibals & a Beautiful Girl
The Meaning of Life
What was your name again?
Two Frogs
Is Common Sense Possible
An Architects Vision
Does Edison Turn Your Light On
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There are loads of great audio programs at Nightingale Conant's ,web site here,
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