Crabs in a bucket?

What is that you are talking about? Crabs???? As the story goes, fishermen who take to “crabbing” for a living know that once you have your crabs in the bucket, they do not need a covering because they will not get out. It’s not that they cannot get out! It’s not that they do not want to get out! So why can’t they escape? This is the interesting information which relates to many of your friends human nature, once a crab get close to the top of the bucket (ready to escape) all of the little crab friends pull him back into the bucket.

Have you ever been in this situation? How did you fare? You see, there are many people around us who do not want us to succeed. Those people often are unwilling to better themselves, unmotivated, disgruntled and plain miserable.

Solution: run from these people and don’t look back. Just kidding here, but a Mark Twain quote fits very well here and I will share it with you.

“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.“
— Mark Twain

So there you have it, finding the people who can help you become great while avoiding those who wish to see you keep your present status may be your first step to success.

Wishing you success and happiness

Jeff

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