*Trollcrabs* - for Kathi &other goal setters...

[Guest guest]

*Keep Your Goals Away From the Trolls*

There is a type of crab that cannot be caught - it is agile and

clever enough to get out of any crab trap. And yet, these crabs are

caught by the thousands every day, thanks to a particularly human

trait they possess.

The trap is a wire cage with a hole at the top. Bait is placed in

the cage, and the cage is lowered into the water. One crab comes

along, enters the cage, and begins munching on the bait. A second

crab joins him. A third. Crab Thanksgiving. Yumm. Eventually,

however, all the bait is gone.

The crabs could easily climb up the side of the cage and through the

hole, but they do not. They stay in the cage. Other crabs come along

and join them --- long after the bait is gone. And more.

Should one of the crabs realize there is no further reason to stay

in the trap and attempts to leave, the other crabs will gang up on

him and stop him. They will repeatedly pull him off the side of the

cage. If he is persistent, the others will tear off his claws to

keep him from climbing. If he persists still, they will kill him.

The crabs, by force of the majority, stay together in the cage. The

cage is hauled up, and it's dinnertime on the pier.

The chief difference between these crabs and humans is that these

crabs live in water and humans on land.

Anyone who has a dream , one that might get them out of what they

perceive to be a trap , had best beware of the fellow-inhabitants of

the trap.

People don't like to see others pursuing their dreams! It reminds

them of how far from living their dreams they are. In talking you

out of your dreams, they're talking themselves back into their own

comfort zone. They will give you every rational lie they ever gave

themselves. And if you don't believe them with the same degree of

devotion they do, get ready for Big Time Disapproval.

Why bother? Consider your dream a fragile seed. It's small now, and

needs protection and lots of nurturing. Eventually, it will be

strong , stronger than the slings and arrows of outrageously limited

people.This, of course, does not apply to close friends and

supporters who have always believed in you and offer only

encouragement. If you're not sure, tell them about a friend who has

a similar Dream. If their response is " Good for them! " you're in

good hands. If their response is, " What a silly thing to do, " it

would be a silly thing, indeed, to share your goals with them.

If someone should hear of your dream and start telling you all the

reasons why you can't possibly do it, you can choose to walk away,

or listen to them with compassion as they describe the parameters of

their own comfort zone, the one that may keep them firmly in the

trap until it is hauled up. "

<<joni>>

*be that crab that knows there's more to life than the inside of

that trap!* ;-)

(from the book " DO IT! Let's Get Off Our Buts " by - &

Mc)