Giving Up Too Soon?

A man met a guru on the road. The man asked the guru, "Which way is success?"
The berobed, bearded sage did not speak but pointed to a place off in the distance.

The man, thrilled by the prospect of quick and easy success, rushed off in the appropriate direction. Suddenly, there came a loud "Splat!!!". The man limped back, tattered and stunned, assuming he must have misinterpreted the message.

He repeated his question to the guru, who again pointed silently in the same direction.
The man obediently walked off once more. This time the splat was deafening, and when the man crawled back, he was bloody, broken, tattered, and irate. "I asked you which way is success," he screamed at the guru. "I followed the direction you indicated. And all I got was splatted! No more of this pointing! Talk!"

Only then did the guru spoke, and what he said was this: "Success is that way. Just a little after the splat."

Ecclesiastes 9:10 (New International Version)
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the grave, [a] where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.

With love, Farmer