Just what is a crab pot boil and how does it relate to those of us who are trying to succeed?

I heard an interesting story the other day from a friend of mine from the south. He was explaining the way that the crabs in a crab pot boil try to climb out of the pot to save themselves. However, as the lead crab or the top crab tries to escape. It is grabbed from below by the bottom crabs and pulled back to destruction in the boiling pot of water below.

Man does this descibe the same way that we can be dragged down by well meaning or not, friends family and others. It seems that just as you are about to make a breakthrough. Those who are not succeeding will grab your ideas, actions and thoughts and try to drag them down with them. you now the lines. It will never work. Other people have tried that before. It just can’t be done.

Well my friends. I beg to differ you are and can be all you set your mind to. I am not saying that we should step on the other crabs as we try to escapt the mediocrity of those stuck in the crab boil. However, to succeed we need to exert a tremendous amount of effort to save ourselves from this fate.

Let’s stop trying to pull each other into the fire. Instead let us gather our creative energies together and escape. Grab a couple of other people and climb up and over into the land of freedom and limitless opportunity outside.

Anyway gotta go the crabs are almost done.

Aloha Troy Tanga
Maui Hawaii