Be a determined spirit

Thanks to Arizona Republic for printing this, and D.Leverance for bringing it to my attention. Here is an excerpt from a piece by Harvey Mackay, sales trainer .  To get your inspiration for the day, please take a look at the entire piece published in the Republic.DETERMINED SPIRIT by H.Mackay

This poem, “Plain Old Oyster,” attributed to David Cohen, really captures what a determined spirit can achieve:

There once was an oyster whose story I’ll tell

Who found that some sand had gotten into his shell

It was only a grain, but gave him great pain

For oysters have feelings, although they are plain.

Now, did he berate the harsh workings of fate

That had brought him to such a deplorable state?

“No,” he said to himself, “Since I cannot remove it,”

I’ll lie in my shell, and think how to improve it.”

The years rolled around, as the years always do,

And he came to his ultimate destiny … stew.

Now the small grain of sand that had bothered him so,

Was a beautiful pearl all richly aglow.

This tale has a morale, for isn’t it grand,

What an oyster can do with a morsel of sand?

Think … what could we do, if we’d only begin,

With some of the things that get under our skin.