Crabs in the Bucket

Many of you are familiar with the analogy of “Crabs in the Bucket”, where crabs will literally pull each other down as they try to escape the confines of a bucket.  In your life there may be people who will try to pull you down as you begin to build success and rise towards the top of the “bucket”.  What some people aren’t aware of is that they might be their own “crab in the bucket” and are responsible for sabotaging their own success.  Think about all those situations where you didn’t apply for a certain job, or pursue a career that interested you because you didn’t think you would succeed.  Or, perhaps you did make a feeble attempt at landing that job or pursuing that career only to fail because you believed you would.  A self-fulfilling prophecy is a very powerful self-defeating mechanism that has derailed many dream careers and hopes of success.  Through some self assessment, examine your thoughts and situations where you avoided chances of success because you didn’t believe in your own abilities.  Don’t be that crab in the bucket that won’t let yourself escape the confines of mediocrity.  The only crab in this bucket is the power of your mind and it only has claws if you allow it to.