![]() ![]() ![]() How many accomplishments have we missed simply because we quit too early? How many of us are willing to wait 75 days for anything? We give up on diets, relationships, businesses, investments and all kinds of goals, simply because the desired results aren’t immediate enough. Even without anyone discouraging him, it would take real dedication to keep watering and pulling weeds with nothing to show for it for 60 to 75 days. ![]() In the end (spoiler alert!), the carrot comes up and the boy needs a wheelbarrow to carry it away.Ĭleary the story celebrates the values of faith and perseverance. This 99-word story brilliantly tells the tale of a little boy who plants a carrot seed and continues to care for it, even though everyone in his family tells him it won’t come up. Yesterday I read my daughter the oldest book on her bookshelf, Ruth Krauss’ The Carrot Seed. ![]()
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