The Lesson of the Pump

One day I was listening to Zig Ziglar talk about the importance of making a decision and sticking to it. He illustrated this section of his seminar by using a pump. The kind of pump I am talking about is the one located outside your house. It has a long handle you work up and down and a spout where the water comes out and long pipe that goes down into the ground to the water source. You might have seen them in an old country and western.

Zig would start getting on it about never giving up and you would hear that pump handle on the tape going up and down, and the more he got into his point the faster and harder that pump handle would move up and down. You would hear Zig tell you not to stop because you never knew were the wat...
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