A lesson from frogs

Let me tell you about two frogs who jumped into a bucket of cream on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. 

"May as well, give up," croaked one after another trying in vain to get out. "We're goners!"

"Keep on paddling," said the other frog. "We'll get out of this mess somehow!"

"It's no use," said the first.  "Too thick to swim.  Too thin to jump.  Too slippery to crawl.  We're bound to die sometime anyway, so it may as well be tonight."  He sank to the bottom of the bucket and died.  

His friend just kept on paddling and paddling and paddling.  And by morning he was perched on a mass of butter which he had churned all by himself.  There he was, with a grin on his face, eating the flies that came swarming from every direction. 

That little frog had discovered what most folks ignore;  if you stick with the task long enough, you're going to be a winner.