Don't Be A Boiled Frog!
My friend Eric once told me, "Don't be a boiled frog!". I said what the (insert word of choice) are you talking about? Eric, by the way, is one of the smartest people I know. A very successful and daring entrepreneur who views business much like I do - he has a passion for the art. He is also a solid, grounded guy with an even greater passion for life.
"Don't be a boiled frog!" He repeated to me. "You have a degree in Microbiology, don't you remember any of this stuff from college?" Frankly, I didn't. I must have skipped out during that class. "If you put a frog in a pot of cold water and heat up the water to a boil, the frog will cook to death. However, if you take a frog and drop him in a pot of boiling water, he (or she) will quickly jump out and escape. Life is the same way. You can get into situations where the world around you slowly heats up and you don't notice it and just live with it. However, if you were walking into that situation for the first time, you would make a change right away".
What Eric was referring to was a business I was once involved with where I loved the Company, but disliked someone I was business partners with. My business partner's moral code was different than mine and it was eating me up.
I went to bed that night and made a decision to either try to buy my business partner out or sell the business. We ended up selling. My enjoyment of life, my passion for living, for the experiences life has to offer, has increased many times since then.
Moral of the story: we are all faced with situations that slowly creep up on us and make our world a miserable one...a negative, needy employee; a profession that we no longer enjoy; friends that are bad influences on us; etc... don't let the water boil and cook you. Don't be a boiled frog!!!
"Don't be a boiled frog!" He repeated to me. "You have a degree in Microbiology, don't you remember any of this stuff from college?" Frankly, I didn't. I must have skipped out during that class. "If you put a frog in a pot of cold water and heat up the water to a boil, the frog will cook to death. However, if you take a frog and drop him in a pot of boiling water, he (or she) will quickly jump out and escape. Life is the same way. You can get into situations where the world around you slowly heats up and you don't notice it and just live with it. However, if you were walking into that situation for the first time, you would make a change right away".
What Eric was referring to was a business I was once involved with where I loved the Company, but disliked someone I was business partners with. My business partner's moral code was different than mine and it was eating me up.
I went to bed that night and made a decision to either try to buy my business partner out or sell the business. We ended up selling. My enjoyment of life, my passion for living, for the experiences life has to offer, has increased many times since then.
Moral of the story: we are all faced with situations that slowly creep up on us and make our world a miserable one...a negative, needy employee; a profession that we no longer enjoy; friends that are bad influences on us; etc... don't let the water boil and cook you. Don't be a boiled frog!!!
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