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What I learned from seagulls - the seagull strategy

Okay the title is weird, but I went for a drive yesterday afternoon so I could eat my lunch near the water. There wasn’t a seagull in site. Then I decided to throw some BBQ fritos out the window. Yes I had a very healthy lunch. Within seconds there were about 25 - 30 seagulls surrounding my car. I started throwing a few fritos out the window and all the seagulls starting fighting and making seagull noises. (I actually looked up on the Internet what it was called when they make their noise and found nothing. Anyways, back to my story. I decided to open the door of my car and start dropping the fritos closer and closer to the car. All the seagulls stood back and barked (for the lack of a better word) You could see a pecking order (sorry for the pun) and they would threaten any other bird that got in its way. Then suddenly from the back of the flock, one sole seagull walked slowly up to my car. I stayed really still as it approached the open door of my car. The bird very slowly walked to the car and grabbed the frito and moved away. I kept throwing bits of taco close to my car and the same seagull kept coming back. But when I threw some about a foot away, there was quite a frenzy as most of the other seagulls swooped down and grabbed the tacos. They were in their safety zone, and did not feel threatened by me. I got back to throwing the fritos closer to my car again and another seagull hopped over. I say hopped because it only had one leg. Now out of over 25-30 seagulls I could only get two of these seagulls to come close enough to grab the food. Follow me here, there is an analogy. Gradually a few more got a little closer, but I would say more than 3/4 of them were just too scared.

After awhile I started to imagine that these seagulls were people. Gathering in a large group waiting for someone to come along and offer something to them, a large group of people hungry for a new opportunity. Obviously they were scared, they did not know me and did not know if they could trust me. The ones that looked at this as a good opportunity were the people with a real hunger for opportunity and they moved from the crowd. Have you ever been offered an opportunity and stayed with the crowd or have you moved forward? If we look back to the days of Christopher Columbus, you will see a lot of people who were scared but looking for answers. Christopher Columbus did not spend all his life arguing if the world was flat. One day he said “Hey guys, let’s get on this boat and find out for ourselves” Sure there was the possibility that he could have fallen off the edge of the earth, but he knew it was worth the risk. What have you stopped yourself from doing because you thought it was not worth the risk? We need more CC’s in the world and I do not mean Canadian Club and Coke (my favorite drink by the way)

Hope this tidbit inspires you

MMMomma