Think PIG But Avoid a 'PIG Mentality'

Dear lovely people,

Samson, a popular village farmer at one moment thought he will change his pig into a better animal and so he gave it a thorough bath one sunny morning until it gleamed but as the sun beat harder on the arid environment, Samson was saddened to later find his pig once again in mud and got really furious.

The first thing Samson ignored was the fact that no matter how much or how often you give a pig a good bath, it will always return to mud the moment it set eyes on it. Why? Because it is its nature. Pigs do not have functional sweat glands so they use water or mud for the purpose of staying cool in hot weather. Pigs do not prefer to sit in mud. Infact, they prefer cleanliness much more than other animals. They use the mud only as a coolant when subjected to excessive heat, that too out of necessity. Mud also provides the pigs protection against flies and parasites, apart from being used as a form of sunscreen, which protects their skin from sunburn.

Along the road to success, you meet people who have wonderful dreams, goals and plans. They know fully well that achieving such dreams requires them to break out of mediocrity and inertia that holds them back. They know they have to move out of their comfort zones and venture onto new territory and so they start off well but soon give up when obstacles come their way. They return to what they have made their nature – their old selves of lethargy. They behave just like the pigs who return to mud after a cool bath.

I must tell you that Inertia cannot be your true nature except you make it so, procrastination is not your portion until you implant it deep into your system.

Others with the ‘pig mentality’ allow themselves to be infected with the ‘The Expert Syndrome’. In trying to seek advice and encouragement, they listen to the gurus of their field who tell them their secrets of success. It’s a wise decision to listen to them I must say but the problem comes when in trying to be wise, some of them end up unwise by following all that the gurus tell them without question. You get the point?

This is where you must be careful. Some of the most successful people in the world did what others told them would never work. They knew something about their own idea that even the gurus didn’t know. As a matter of fact, every path to success is different. That is why it is a matter of personal experience.

“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” Says George Bernard Shaw

Personally, I Think P.I.G. and have adopted it as my motto. P stands for Persistence, I stands for Integrity, and G stands for Guts. By all standards, these are the ingredients for a successful business and a successful life.”