Anthony C. Nwokolo |
If You Must Succeed in Any Endeavour,You Must Burn Any Bridge for Retreat
I
read an inspiring story about a
captain of a battalion of soldiers, who lead a battalion to the battle field
across a sea with a boat and after they have crossed over to the war front and
alighted from the boat, the captain set ablaze the boat that conveyed them to
the other side of the war zone, and addressed his solders and said; Gentlemen, as you can see the boat which transported
us to this place have been set ablaze; that means that we have no means to
retreat nor to surrender, we must win this battle, if we must return home alive
or we perish here. Guess what happened? They won the battle, as a result of
that singular decision and action of their leader, who provided no means for
them neither to retreat nor to surrender.