Groundhog Day Syndrome

Well, here it is, another Groundhog Day.

Like every other year - and that great movie of the same name with Bill Murray - the media will spend airtime and print trying to predict how many weeks of winter remain.

As if some large rodent seeing his shadow, or not, should have any bearing on how we live our life.

What does it mean to us exactly if there are six more weeks of winter or not? Are we really going to make plans or cancel them based on the intensity and position of the sun as some animal is dragged up from it's hole?

Surprisingly, many people live and plan their lives using excuses much more outrageous than this.

Astrology, tarot cards, tea leaves are really the same principle. How about not asking for a raise because you already know your boss will say no? Isn't that fortune telling as well?

How about asking anyone to do anything? Don't we all have conversations going on in our head all the time? Sure we do! And almost always they are questions. And we answer them ourselves! But often the answers we give are based on limited knowledge. Oh sure, we think we know everything. In reality we only know what we know. Unfortunately, that only brings us a tiny fraction of all the resources and knowledge that's out there.

So next time you laugh at the antics of the groundhog, or marvel at his stunning accuracy in the year his prediction comes true, remember how little any of us know compared to the intelligence of our collective body.

Remember the words of King Solomon written in [Proverbs 29:18, 11:14]  
"Where there is no counsel, the people parish: but in the multitude of counselors there is safety."

In otherwords, "Ask around!" You may find ideas you had never thought of before - and when combined with your own ideas, will take you much farther, much more easily than you could have gone by yourself.

Seek good counsel from those wise in the matters you need. And then act on that knowledge.

Don't take advice from fat rats 

who have only a fifty-fifty chance of being right.

Don't be afraid of your shadow 

or things that might have happened in your past.

Don't live in the shadow of others, 

but seek out those who succeed 

and walk beside them.

No matter what you do, act. Waiting for the perfect time or answers is oftentimes worse that making the wrong choice. The sooner you can get the wrong way behind you  - the sooner you can get on to the right way.

Seek good advice, act now. Don't wait six more weeks to see if things will get better.

Happy Groundhog Day!
Robert Schwarztrauber

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