The New Year Resolution You Can’t Go Wrong With

It will help you achieve anything if you stick to it.

Adelina Vasile
2 min readDec 31, 2022
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Once upon a time, the turtles from a far away land decided to find out which one is the fastest of them all.

They wanted to make the competition difficult. So they set the final destination at the top of a tall tower.

All the animals in the area heard about the unusual race. And came to watch from the sidelines.

The turtles lined up and sprang at full speed. Each one more motivated than the other to be the first one who makes it to the top.

Watchers were skeptical.

Who in the world has ever heard of a fast turtle?

And how are they supposed to climb such a tall tower?

Imagine the muttering. And the chattering. It would not stop.

It was discouraging.

It was effective.

Just as the sideliners predicted, the turtles have started to abandon the race.

One by one, they gave up way before the half of the route. Discouraged with fatigue and all the voices predicting their failures.

Yet to everyone’s surprise, one turtle was still in the competition. She kept climbing and climbing…

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Adelina Vasile

Mother, educator, journalist, copywriter. I write about the things I need to learn myself.