We are what we repeatedly think and do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit

Once upon a time........... a woodcutter was offered work. The pay was good and the forest was where she wanted to be. For that reason, the woodcutter determined to do her best. She was given an axe and shown the area to work.

The first day, the woodcutter brought a full load of trees back from the forest. "Well done ...carry on like that!" was the response.

Motivated by such support the woodcutter tried equally hard the next day, but could not manage to fill the cart. The third day she thought she must try even harder, but the result was barely half a cart load...and so this pattern went on - every day less and less.

"I must be losing my strength", the woodcutter thought. She went to the forestry owner and apologized, saying that she could not understand what was happening.

"When was the last time you sharpened your axe?" the chief forester asked.
"Sharpen? O I've had no time to sharpen it I've been too busy cutting the trees..."