A motorist on a quiet country road accidentally ran his car into a ditch. Try as he might he couldn’t get the car out and so he asked a local farmer for help. The farmer obliged and hooked up the car to his blind mule, called Big Tex. The farmer then cracked his whip and called out, “Pull Clyde, pull.” Then he cracked the whip a second time and called out, “Pull Billy, pull.” Finally, he cracked the whip a third time and called out, “Pull Big Tex, pull.”

The blind mule duly obeyed and pulled the car clean out of the ditch. Now, Of course, the motorist was extremely grateful but also a little curious, so he asked the farmer why he had called out the names of Clyde and Billy. “Well,” said the farmer. “Big Tex is afraid of hard work. If he thought he would have to do it all by himself he wouldn’t have even bothered trying.”

There are many people in this world who act the same way. People who are frightened of hard work; who refuse to take the lead and won’t even consider trying to ‘go it’ alone. Instead, they complain about their rights and shout about things being unfair. What businesses need are people who are willing to stand out from the crowd; people who are willing to take the initiative, people who work to make a difference and not simply work to make a living.