Beware Of The Crabs Pulling You Down!

Did you ever hear of the Crab Mentality? This idea of the crab mentality is best explained by the phrase: "if I can't have it, neither can you".

The comparison is derived from a pattern of behavior observed in crabs when they are trapped in a bucket. So, while anyone crab could easily escape, its efforts will be weakened by others that are pulling it down - ensuring the group's collective failure.

The analogy in human behavior is that members of a group will attempt to reduce the self-confidence of any member who achieves success beyond the others. This could be done out of envy, resentment, nastiness, conspiracy, or competitive feelings to delay their progress.

The thing is that you don’t want to spend too much time around people who will question every investment or entrepreneurial opportunity you may want to take. It could be with all good intentions, and due to their own limited experience and knowledge, they will most probably scare you off to the extent that you will lose energy and hit the brakes leaving the road of financial freedom and making a U-turn towards the old you.

So, you need to detect the crabs in your circle of friends and make sure to stay out of the bucket where they sit getting busy pulling others down towards them.

This simple move of staying out of the Crabs Buckets will allow you to restore your mindset back to a positive and effective state.

Then you need to join this active group of Salmon Fish all swimming upstream against the water flow. with all determination, incentive, and motives until they reach where they want to be.

So, if you think about how this can relate to you, one of the best ways to develop a positive mindset is by carefully choosing whom you spend your time with.

If you are really determined to become rich and achieve financial freedom, you will need to cultivate friendships with successful people who seek out and talk about opportunities. The more time you spend with those people, the more you will learn from them about how to achieve your financial goals.

Being in the company of positive and like-minded individuals is crucial. Spending time with positive people will boost your energy, esteem, and happiness.

I am neither suggesting that you select your friends for their income level or investment acumen nor to lose friends who have selected the route of poverty. In fact, I have friends from both extremes, and each one of them teaches me different lessons.

What I am opening your eyes to is to select with whom you wanna spend most of your time with whom do you want to rub shoulders and from whom do you want to learn.

This association tactic of going out of the crabs' bucket and Joining the group of salmons is easier said than done. It's not an easy thing to face facts about a friend, family member, long-time colleague, but knowing who is pulling you down and limiting your time in their presence is the first crucial step you must take and you will be feeling the positive vibe immediately!

Now you might be wondering about how to detect the crabs around you. Those crabs could be a friend you have known forever, a person whom you know through another friend, or a person whom you see all the time in a specific area of your life.

No matter how close or far this type of friendship is, I tell you it’s not going to be easy for you to spend less time with them. You are going to feel guilty brushing them off because you are used to seeing them all the time.

Here are some questions that will help you detect who those crabs in your circles of friends are:

1. Do you feel you constantly have to fix this person’s problems?
2. Do you feel you are covering up or hiding for them??
3. Do you feel you dread seeing them??
4. Do you feel you feel drained after being with them??
5. Do you feel you get angry, sad, or depressed when you are around them??
6. Do you feel that they cause you to gossip or be mean??
7. Do you feel you feel you have to impress them??
8. Do you feel you’re affected by their problems??

Now grab your notebook because you may want to write down all your friends, and people you interact with constantly. After you finish, take each of them through this set of questions and you will easily find out who is a crab and who is a salmon … whom to spend less time with, and whom to spend more time with and learn from.

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