Who’s Pulling You Down?

Sanctuary is one of the 12 Desired Results of the Success With People system because it gives you perspective.

My friend and pastor, Joe Everly, mentioned this past weekend the example of freshly caught crabs that are offered for sale in a market. As long as there are multiple crabs for sale, they can be offered in open baskets because if one tries to escape the others drag it back into the basket. Do you have people stopping you from achieving your key priorities?

Elaine Hahn has some nice paintings of crabs in baskets if you are interested in making this point to your team. Here is one of them.

All those crabs just crawling around complaining… It sounds like some offices I’ve been invited to visit.

Use Sanctuary to break away from the crabs! Turn off all forms of communication for 1-2 hours a day just to focus on achieving key priorities. At other times Sanctuary is getting away from the office for a healthy walk/exercise and snack just to clear your mind of the crabs.

Make this next week your best week! It’s a great life… as long as you can escape the crabs!!!