Don’t Settle For Less And Be a Complacent Frog

Employee training with Emotional Intelligence

Do you ever find yourself putting up with a situation, then you take a fresh look at it and think, how in the world did I get myself into this?  I had this very question asked of me just last week in Anchorage, Alaska!

Many of the hardworking, well-intentioned people I coach in my small group coaching sessions have admitted to feeling exactly that way.

You wake up one morning and think, “Where did my life go?  This isn’t what it was supposed to be like.”

That’s why my small group coaching sessions always address the very important topic of “Where do you want to be and where are you now?”

I trust the following article will get you thinking about any situations you have in your life that you need to address but have been putting off.

And stay tuned for more info about when my next small group coaching sessions begin.  If you’d like more info immediately, simply write to me at crystal@crystaljonas.com and ask about coaching.

“Don’t Settle for Less and Be a Complacent Frog” ©

Crystal Jonas, Employee Training & Coaching

Woody Allen said “Life is what happens when you’re busy doing something else.”

One day you wake up and you’re 33 or 46 or 53, whatever. You may suddenly realize that you’ve spent a whole lot of life responding to someone else’s agenda so much so that you are surprised when you realize that you are in an intolerable situation and you have no idea how you got there.

I call this “The Complacent Frog Syndrome.” And I talk in much more detail about how to get out of it in my CD program called “The Power of Purpose: The Art of Living in Excellence.”

Legend has it that if you put a frog in a pot of water on slow simmer, it will stay there until it’s no longer able to jump out.

Toss it in to a pot on high boil, and it’s gonna hop right out of there.

If you’d like to know more about how to “hop out of the pot” break out of your rut, and jump start your life, later, check out my program, “The Power of Purpose.”

Our lives tend to reach that intolerable high boil point slowly, starting on low simmer.  Not realizing that we are in a slow simmer situation, we put up with our circumstances, busy, busy busy doing whatever we need to do to just get through the day.

Why?  You know why. It’s less work to flow with the tide than to be the captain of our ship and direct our course ourselves.

And so we live by default rather than design and chance rather than choice.  This leads most of us to live what Henry David Thoreau calls “lives of quiet desperation.”

It may seem easier at the time to go with the flow, but when you look back on your life, will you still be happy that you didn’t take an active role in directing who and where you wanted to be and what you wanted to accomplish?

Marshall Silver, expert in hypnosis and mind mastery said that in our lives “we have either discipline or regrets.”

Which will you have?

Keynotes, Seminars and Workshops for busy professionals who want greater results with less effort with emotional intelligence training.