Ants (3)

‘Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.’ Proverbs 10:4 NLT

A leaf-cutting ant may carry up to fifty times its own weight more than a hundred metres. That’s the equivalent of an 80 kg man carrying four tonnes on his back for ten kilometres! In a single summer, a large colony of ants may excavate 14 to 18 tonnes of earth to make a nest, and carry two tonnes of material back into the nest for food. It can make as many as four round trips a day to food sources that may be more than 120 metres from the nest. That’s roughly equivalent to a person walking 110 km. If the ant had the stride of a man, it would be capable of bursts of speed in excess of 100 km per hour, and would walk normally at a speed of 32 km per hour. (And you think you have it rough!) One thing about an ant you can count on: he always gives his best and pulls his share of the load.

Teach your kids that their reputation will never rise above their work ethic, and how people view them as workers. The success of the Walt Disney empire is based on the philosophy of its founder: ‘Whatever you do, do it so well that when people see you do it, they’ll want to come back and see you do it, and they’ll want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.’ Teach your children to work hard, always finish the job, and always give their best. If they learn that lesson well, you won’t have to teach them much about success—it will be their constant companion.

蚂蚁（3）

手懒的，要受贫穷；手勤的，却要富足。箴10:4

一只切叶蚁可以携带比自身重50倍的东西前行超过一百米，这相当于一个80公斤重的人背着4吨重的东西走10公里！只需要一个夏天，一群蚂蚁就可以挖14到18吨的泥土筑出一个巢穴，并将2吨的食物带回巢穴中。它还可以在一天四次往返于巢穴和120米之外的食物点之间，这大致相当于一个人走110公里的距离。如果蚂蚁有人的步伐，它在爬得快的时候可以超过每小时100公里，正常速度也可以达到每小时32公里。（而你会认为这对你来说太难了！）你可以从蚂蚁身上学到一点：它总是尽全力而为，而只从中分得自己所需要的那一份。

告诉你的孩子，他们的声誉是来自于他们的职业道德以及他们工作时的表现。迪斯尼帝国的成功是基于其创始人的哲学：“无论你做什么，都要尽力做好，以至于当别人看到你做所的事情时，会想回来看看，并把其他人也带来，让他们也知道你做了什么。”教导你的孩子要努力工作、完成工作，并且总是尽最大的努力。如果他们学得很好，你就不必教他们很多关于成功的知识——这将是他们的永恒伴侣。