By Virginia Mburu
“One appeared.........
And then another. Many others….Suddenly
there were frogs everywhere.
Tiny ones, small ones, big ones, giant ones- name
it. They occupied every space leaving no sitting, standing, sleeping space not
even eating space.
The adults were perplexed, the children’s cries
could be heard from every corner not to mention the cacophony of animal cries.
Something had gone seriously wrong! What was going on?”, the narrator asked.
At this juncture, Mwakazi walked
into the living room to find his children Waridi and Jabali watching the popular Kids TV program. So engrossed were they that they
did not even pay attention to his entry. “That is not funny”, He said to himself
as he sat in his favorite spot and poured himself a cup of tea.
Not a single child who was in the TV studio
audience raised a hand to answer that question. They actually seemed rather
afraid. Mwakazi reckoned they must have been imagining how the situation must
have been like. “Awful, pretty awful.”
The narrator continued......The broadcasting stations were “breaking news”
and showing pictures of the “frog invasion”. The city streets, the farms, the
forests even the Kings Palace! The children gasped. “And then the King was
asked to decide when he wanted the frog invasion to end. Would you like to know
what the king said? The narrator asked. “YES YES YES”, the children
responded in unison.
"Tommorrow”!
“What!!! Another day with the frogs?”
Mwakazi shouted attracting his children’s attention. Just then, the
TV went off. “NOOOOOOOOOOO, What is going on” asked Jabali. “Black
out” replied Waridi.
“Daddy” why did the King say “TOMORROW”? Why
another day with the frogs? asked Jabali. “How were they to cook, eat,
sit, sleep, work with all those frogs?” Waridi asked. Mwakazi had no answers to
these questions.
Pendo (his wife) walked in and the children
started narrating the story and posed the same questions as they had asked
their Dad.
In the meantime, he was digesting the story and
then it occurred to him how often we also willingly spend another day, weeks,
months, even years with frogs.
“Jabali”, “Yes Dad”, Jabali responded with
annoyance as they had not got the answers they wanted from MUM. “When are you
doing your homework?” “Tomorrow," Jabali replied. “Tomorrow?” exclaimed
Pendo and Waridi. “So you want to spend another day with the homework frog?”
Dad asked.
“What kind of frogs do we encounter in our day
to day lives?” asked Dad, breaking the silence.
Mama Jabali spoke first- “I actually have
delayed preparation of our BIZ MUMS CHAMA accounts. I have been procrastinating
this exercise for the last three weeks and our meeting is due in a week!”
“And you Waridi?” She is hesitant to
speak as Mum looks at her. “ Eh eh eh I…. I also have not cleaned my
bedroom”
“And I am off to the gym”, Dad retorts as they
all scuffle to do away with the frogs.
As Mwakazi works out in the gym, his minds
wanders to his business- Makao Interior Designers. The entrepreneurial bug bit
him when he was working with a leading interior design company. He felt
the need for more freedom to exploit his passion and have more freedom to
pursue personal interests. Five years down the line, there seems to be a mega
frog invasion over there.
“How do we end up with all these frogs?”
Mwakazi wonders
As the work out gets more intense, so does his
analysis. “One by one, day by day”. He thinks about those tasks in his IN
tray. Some have been there for days, weeks, months.....
Analysing each of those tasks, he realizes
that some of them have been lying there for so long because
- He does not like doing them,
- He is not good at some,
- They are not critical to his passion,
- He is spending too much time sorting problems, firefighting etc.
Over to YOU- Passionate Entrepreneur;
- Which frogs are you spending your personal, family, social and working days with?
- What do you plan to do with these frogs?
Please share your thoughts in the comments
section below
Whatever you do, make sure it results in
less work, more money and positive impact.
Update
Virginia Mburu
Passionate Entrepreneurs Coach
Virginia empowers and motivates Passionate
Entrepreneurs to realize their purpose and pursue it. She then assists the
entrepreneurs to clarify, prioritise and focus on management and marketing
strategies and action plans that will get them to work less, make more money
and positively impact within one year. Download some of
her gifts- absolutely free lessons on www.biasharacoach.blogspot.co.ke
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