Creative Bent: Got Alligators?
In just this last week, I've seen an inordinate number of clients and friends struggling mightily with something that just isn't working right in their business or personal lives. Or, maybe I'm finally recognizing it in others as I've been dealing with a few of those same issues myself over the summer.
In other words, you have alligators in your swamp.
Every morning, you get up and the biting, thrashing problem is still there. Some days you might go at it with all the resolve and muster of a professional tackle for the Denver Broncos. Other days, you'd rather lay in bed and hope it doesn't notice you, that lump you've become there. You might even ramp up the effort for a full week, but the extra work doesn't seem to be clearing the 'gators.
You might complain about it to friends and family - nothing changes other than the fact that your friends and family grow weary of hearing about it. You might complain to a higher authority - still nothing really changes. You might find a fix and think you've gotten it solved but, sooner than later, the creature is back in your backyard, sunning himself with that toothy grin.
As an old friend used to tell me, "Stop fighting the alligators. Drain the swamp."
Gee. WHAT a novel idea.
Take a moment and stop beating at the problem. Put that broom down. Now, think. Really think: It's time to reframe your ideas for solution. It's time to figure out how to get to the drain of that swamp.
I just heard Bob Proctor give a short presentation on Price Pritchett's book, You2. The combo of these two masters - Bob's further interpretation of what I consider Price's best book - just can't be beat. In his presentation, Bob noted that it's your paradigm that's controlling your current result. You've got to shift the paradigm - tackle the root of your thinking and THIS TIME radically shift away from that root in a completely different direction … or you're just going to keep getting the same results.
As Price noted, there's an obvious move you can make. It's already there, hanging out, waiting for you to discover it. Just sit back and think … if you had in your hands the most energy-efficient, time-saving, moving-on solution to the alligator infestation, what would it be?
Now, I know, I know what you're thinking . . . sure, there's a drain but it's at the bottom of a SWAMP of ALLIGATORS. That's an impossible solution!
You might have to think creatively to pull the plug, that's for sure. But the plug IS there.
Stop beating at the problem around you. Find a way to the plug.
In other words, you have alligators in your swamp.
Every morning, you get up and the biting, thrashing problem is still there. Some days you might go at it with all the resolve and muster of a professional tackle for the Denver Broncos. Other days, you'd rather lay in bed and hope it doesn't notice you, that lump you've become there. You might even ramp up the effort for a full week, but the extra work doesn't seem to be clearing the 'gators.
You might complain about it to friends and family - nothing changes other than the fact that your friends and family grow weary of hearing about it. You might complain to a higher authority - still nothing really changes. You might find a fix and think you've gotten it solved but, sooner than later, the creature is back in your backyard, sunning himself with that toothy grin.
As an old friend used to tell me, "Stop fighting the alligators. Drain the swamp."
Gee. WHAT a novel idea.
Take a moment and stop beating at the problem. Put that broom down. Now, think. Really think: It's time to reframe your ideas for solution. It's time to figure out how to get to the drain of that swamp.
I just heard Bob Proctor give a short presentation on Price Pritchett's book, You2. The combo of these two masters - Bob's further interpretation of what I consider Price's best book - just can't be beat. In his presentation, Bob noted that it's your paradigm that's controlling your current result. You've got to shift the paradigm - tackle the root of your thinking and THIS TIME radically shift away from that root in a completely different direction … or you're just going to keep getting the same results.
As Price noted, there's an obvious move you can make. It's already there, hanging out, waiting for you to discover it. Just sit back and think … if you had in your hands the most energy-efficient, time-saving, moving-on solution to the alligator infestation, what would it be?
Now, I know, I know what you're thinking . . . sure, there's a drain but it's at the bottom of a SWAMP of ALLIGATORS. That's an impossible solution!
No. The impossible solution would be no drain.
And every problem has a drain.
And every problem has a drain.
You might have to think creatively to pull the plug, that's for sure. But the plug IS there.
Stop beating at the problem around you. Find a way to the plug.
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