The Squirrel and Your Success

When I was a young boy, I used to watch my grandfather set squirrel traps in his yard.

He did this because from time to time, a squirrel would make its way down his chimney and into the house. My grandmother appreciated his efforts more than you can imagine.

So, my grandpa would catch them, and then drive them over to the local park and set them free.

Each time he trapped one, sometimes within hours, another squirrel would find its way into the trap and feast on the peanuts and crackers provided by my grandfather.

It was quite comical to say the least as my grandfather became obsessed with keeping these furry little pests out of his house. Go figure!

One day it occured to him that perhaps it wasn't just another squirrel eating all the bait he set out - maybe it was the same squirrel just coming back each time it got hungry.

So...one day he decided to mark its tail with a tiny bit of purple spray paint and then see if his little friend was in fact the frequent flyer.

It turned out that it was not the same squirrel every time, but a different one, until one day, sure enough there was the purple tail!

We never laughed so hard as that day when my grandpa told us this story about how he was out-smarted by a squirrel.

Observing this as a young boy, I learned a thing or two about squirrels, that has everything to do with your success.

I take the following excerpt from John Elliot's Overacheivment.

Imagine this: Have you ever seen a squirrel scurry across a telephone wire?

What do you think it was thinking?

Quick hint: It wasn’t.

Squirrels don’t think. They just scurry.

It's actually a little more complex than that, but the point is simple:

They’re not up there on the high wire thinking, “Oh, my! This one’s high. It’s a little windy today. If I take a wrong step that’s gonna hurt. OMG! It’ll kill me actually. OK. Left front foot, now back right foot. Oh, Geez! This is harder than I thought it would be.”

Thoughts like that require a cerebral cortex.

And, if you want to get into what Eliot calls the “Trusting Mindset”—the mindset of overachievers — you need to learn to turn it off and give your skills free reign, not focusing “on anything but the target of that particular moment.”



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So, what does this mean to your success?

Everything.


It means trusting yourself.

It means doing, not thinking.

As the late, great Bob Schmidt told me 10 years ago sitting in his little office off Tamarac in San Diego, there are only 2 types of soldiers -the quick and the dead. (not to be distasteful)

So, if you desire to become a top producer and become more successful, don't allow yourself to think yourself right out of success.

I see too many people do this, where they analyze everything, think it through, but just never act on it.

I mean, what good is it to know it all, but have nothing to show for it in terms of actually using that knowledge to profit?

This is called being a "broke genius". The know it all who has nothing to speak of.

The key then is not to over analyze and just do it.

Just like the squirrel.

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