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Crystal
Jonas is a five-time published author, former Asst. Professor at USAFA, and expert
in "how to be successful in school." She delivers over 100 seminars, workshops, and programs a
year. Her CD's and
ebooks are used all over the country by students who want swift and
certain success.
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Student Success TipsTip #19
Avoid “The Complacent Frog Syndrome”
Legend has it that if you put a frog in a pot of water on slow
simmer, it will stay there until it’s no longer able to jump out.
Toss it in to a pot on high boil, and it’s gonna hop right out
of there.
The frog in the first case is complacent, thinking in its own
little frog way, “Well, it’s not really that bad.
I can handle it.” And then it reaches the point where it can no
longer help itself.
Our lives tend to reach that intolerable high boil point slowly,
starting on low simmer. Not
realizing that we are in a slow simmer situation, we put up with our
situation, even though it’s ultimately not getting any closer to what
we want to achieve because we are, you guessed it, ‘complacent
frogs.’
Nick, a Sophomore at a University in
He said that this was exactly what had happened to him at the end
of his first semester as a Sophomore, he had overloaded his schedule,
taking 5 classes, although one was a lab and required greater prep, he
was working crazy graveyard shift hours to earn extra money, and he was
dating a girl he didn’t particularly like just because he felt he
didn’t have the time to break up with her!
Wow! Talk about being
on a long slow simmer. Nick’s
point was that he learned his lesson after that semester.
He felt so stressed his grades took a dive and his health went
with it. He says he’s
learned to take action right away to hop out of that slow simmer
situation.
I’ll let Nick speak for himself “It (correcting your bad
situation) will take some effort, but it’s better than getting cooked
because you just put up with things you shouldn’t.” ***************************************** For all 101 Tips on Student Success as a download you can get right now, go to Success Store While you're there, check out my other downloadable
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