The Story of Two Frogs
I want to share with you a story.
A story that hit me hard when I first read it.
Maybe it will be the same for you. Here goes…
There were a group of frogs traveling through the forest.
Out of nowhere, two of them fell into a deep pit.
The other frogs saw how deep the pit was and told the two frogs there was no hope left for them.
The two frogs didn’t care.
They ignored their comrades and proceeded to try to jump out of the pit.
The group of frogs at the top of the pit were still saying they should just give up.
They’d never make it out.
Eventually, one of the frogs took heed of what the others were saying and stopped jumping.
The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the group of frogs yelled at him to stop trying. They told him his fate was inevitable.
He ignored them and put all his power into one big, final jump.
And… he made it out!
When he got out, the other frogs said, “Did you not hear us, telling you to stop?”
“I’m partially deaf,” said the frog.
“I thought you were encouraging me the entire time.”
You see, there comes a time in our lives where we get to make a choice.
A choice which could make or break our future.
And people around us are going to take notice. People are going to try to advise us, to hold us back, to prevent us from taking the leap.
Maybe they’re jealous. Maybe they don’t know any better. Maybe they want you to stay right where they are.
I know it happened to me starting out. I had to believe in myself enough to make the leap when others said it wasn’t worth the effort or what I wanted to do couldn’t be done.
In their minds, they had proof that what I wanted to do wasn’t possible. What was their proof? They hadn’t done it.
So what they expressed was, in fact, their reality.
I wasn’t going to continue to let it be mine.
Point is:
It’s on us to push ourselves and take the leap outside our “pit”.
