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HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN INCH BY INCH
AND
IF YOU HAVE A BIG ENOUGH “WHY” –
YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND THE “HOW.”

HOW TO MAKE IT HAPPEN! INCH BY INCH

"Yard by yard,
it might be hard,
but inch by inch,
it's a cinch."
- Norman Lear, Television Writer and Producer

“My grandfather told me when I was about ten,
as we stood at the edge of a lake in Moodus, Connecticut, that each time I threw a stone into the water I was raising the level of the lake.

I threw another stone.
It wasn't happening.
So I threw a rock.

I still couldn't see the level of the lake rising,
but my grandfather asked me if I saw the ripple.

Years later I understood what he was getting at.
The ripple is what we all have to be satisfied with.

That's what we all have to work our hearts out for
– to make a ripple.

Then we won't see it,
but the water level does rise.”

- Norman Lear

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IF YOU HAVE A BIG ENOUGH “WHY” –
YOU'LL ALWAYS FIND THE “HOW.”

There were two warring tribes in the Andes , one that lived in the lowlands and the other high in the mountains.

The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, and as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families and took the infant with them back up into the mountains.

The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, and they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the steep terrain.

Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain and bring the baby home.

The men tried first one method of climbing and then another. They tried one trail and then another. After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only several hundred feet.

Feeling hopeless and helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, and they prepared to return to their village below.

As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb.

And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. How could that be?

One man greeted her and said, “We couldn't climb this mountain. How did you do this when we, the strongest and most able men in the village, couldn't do it?”

She shrugged her shoulders and said, “It wasn't your baby.”

- From the book "You Don't Have to Be Blind to See" by Jim Stovall

Dr. Rob Gilbert with Joe DePalma

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