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6/11/2012 10:20:46 AM EST
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Crabs in a Bucket
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I remember one of my early mentors telling me that if I wanted to be financial independent, I needed to start spending the majority of my time with people who were already financial independent. I'm sad to say that this mentor was the only person in my life at that time who qualified as financially independent. But I took his words to heart and started to develop associations and friendships with people who had the means to live the kind of lifestyle that I wanted for myself. And it was these associations along with this early mentor that made my goal of financial independence a reality.
So associating with the right people really does make a difference and not just to your net worth. Have you ever noticed how people who are drowning in problems are surrounded by others in the same situation? People naturally become molded by the people they are around. It's just a natural human tendency to become a part of our environment. So the bottomline is that we need to choose our environment very carefully.
And while it's sometimes difficult to free yourself from a bad situation, it's always possible. You just need the desire mixed with some dogged determination. In fact, what can make it so hard to climb out of a bad situation is the people who unknowingly want to hold you back. Since they are fearful of anything different than what they know, they want to protect you by keeping you exactly where you are.
I like to call this the "crabs in a bucket" phenomena. When you have a bucket full of crabs, all of the crabs are reasonably happy until one of them decides to try and climb out of the bucket. The other crabs become quite angry and do everything they can to pull that climbing crab right back to the bottom.
So don't let other peoples' fears hold you back. Once you've decided on a goal, pursue it with everything you've got.
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 | | GREAT blog post, Irving, fellow Empower Network-er! See you in San Diego to Fight the Forces of Evil in September! GO EMPOWER NETWORK!!! Thanks for sharing, so back to da top with ya! God bless! :D
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| | |  | | This "Crab Mentality" will ruin everything when you mistrust people around you. Knowing your colleagues is very crucial to your success.
Thanks for sharing this post Irving :) |
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