Stop Listening To The Chickens And Reach Your Success Potential
Something you may not know about me is that I raise chickens.
I love watching chickens out in the yard…It is something I do to relax and de-stress.
A couple years ago I found some abandoned goose eggs and put them under a chicken to see if they would hatch.
The chicken was successful at hatching out one of the eggs and several of her own eggs.
Much to the Chickens dislike the goose wanted to go in the water. This just did not set well with the chicken.
The story you are about to read is much like the story I just wrote.
Think about what you are trying to do in your life as you try to find success and reach your greatness, and who is like the chickens that are telling you that it is not possible for you to achieve your greatness.
Maybe you heard the story about a farmer one spring that enjoyed watching two eagles flying near a distant bluff. After failing to see the eagles for a couple of days he went to investigate and he found an abandoned nest that held an egg which he took back to the farm.
With the faint hope that it might hatch and a baby eagle grow up and fly, he placed the egg in a nest in the farm house. Two weeks later the egg did hatch and the strange looking baby eagle joined the chickens in the yard of the hen house.
And as the first days passed, the eaglet learned the habits of the chickens, feeding on the corn provided by the farmers. Noticing birds flying overhead one beautiful morning the eaglet remarked, “Wouldn’t it be wonderful to fly like that. I wish I could fly.
” But you know how chickens are. They quickly admonished this foolish thinking. “You’re a chicken,” they said, “You’re not meant to fly.” The fearful mother hen said, “If you try to fly you will surely get caught in the chicken wire and you’ll break your neck.“ And the strutting rooster father added logically, “Even if you did fly over the fence, it would be hard to find food and you’d probably starve. Don’t come back here looking for food if you do.” And all the chickens agreed the baby eagle should not try to fly.
“It sure would be wonderful to fly and soar like that. I wish I could do it.” But he didn’t try. He believed the chickens. And as the days and weeks passed the eaglet said little about flying. He spent more time alone, isolated in the hen house. And then one day the farmer noticed that the eaglet was no longer in the chicken yard.
He hoped the eaglet had grown big enough to fly away and so he went in to investigate. The hen house was dark. He turned on the light and noticed a clump of feathers over in the corner. He picked it up and discovered that it was the young eagle. The eaglet was dead.The story is sad because the eaglet saw his dreams in the birds flying overhead and if he’d only tried, he too could have flown. But instead, he listened to the chickens and he died without ever fulfilling his true identity.
It is the gravitational attraction of the familiar that pulls us away from becoming what we want to be, what we ought to be, what God wants us to be. Take a step of courage, and break out of this gravitational attraction of the familiar. Dreams are not achieved automatically.
Our dreams happen in the face of fear and always with resistance from the chickens. What is it that you need to do that takes courage? What step do you need to take in your life that is going to require you to quit listening to the chickens in your life?
What is keeping you from reaching your GREATNESS?
What is keeping you from the success you deserve and are intended to have?
Will you rise to your greatness like the Eagle could have if he would have stopped listening to the chickens, or will you continue to listen to those who are to chicken to rise to their potential and greatness and allow your dreams and your success to die in the corner of the chicken coop like the eagle did.
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Make it a successful day…
Jeff
March 31st, 2008 at 1:31 am
Jeff,
You brought up just the right story to illustrate what is wrong with our country. When people are in school, those who work hard and get good grades are laughed at and humiliated to the point that they either succumb to the negativity or they are outsiders and they feel like they will never fit in with the crowd.
When I grew up in Midland, Michigan, I went to Bay City Western High School and I hung out with two very different groups. One was the chess team, and we always studied together and played chess. The other was the group who partied on the weekends and played Dungeons and Dragons in my friend’s basement…
I never really fit in with either group, but I managed to stay with both groups, and as I lost the influence of the Chess Team, my grades descended rapidly into the lower “B’s” instead of the “A’s” I was getting through most of my High School years.
It really is whom we choose to listen to and be influenced by that determines the direction we are heading in life. I am fortunate to have you as one of my good friends, because I respect what you have to say. You are one of the people whose opinion matters in my life.
Keep on doing the great things you are doing, Jeff, because you are helping to influence the direction of a lot of people!
Have an amazing day!
Micheal Savoie
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April 3rd, 2008 at 1:34 am
Jeff,
This is why I keep coming to you blog. You always post the most inspirational stories.
Keep ‘em coming man…
April 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Thanks Micheal and Deb. You guys are the best.
I really recommend anyone reading these comments that you go and check out Micheals and Deb’s sites. Both are fantastic people and are there to help you in anyways they can.
Jeff