Welcome to Daring Daily On Demand, your most trusted resource to help you become better

every day.

Here's your success mentor, Daring Hardy.

There is an old tale.

Maybe you've heard it before, but this is particularly pertinent these days and it needs

to be revisited.

It goes like this, one day a farmer's donkey fell down a well.

The animal cried for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally he decided the animal was old and the well, it needed to be covered up anyway.

It just wasn't worth it to try to retrieve the donkey.

Instead he invited all his neighbors to come over and to help him fill the well.

They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.

At first the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.

Then to everybody's amazement, it quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and what he saw astonished

him.

With every shovel up dirt that hit the donkey's back, the donkey did something amazing.

He would just shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake

it off and then take a step up.

Pretty soon everybody was amazed.

As the donkey stepped over the ledge of the well and trotted off.

...