The Niagara Syndrome
Life is like a river for many people, they just jump in the river of life with out ever
deciding where they want to end up, so they quickly get caught up in the current, current
events, current challenges, current fears. And then they come to the forks in the rivers,
they don't consciously decide which way to go, they just go with the flow of the river
(the flow of the majority instead of being directed by their own values and goals) and as
a result the feel out of control but continue to drift down stream until one day the sound
of the raging water wakes them up and they realize they are 5 feet from the falls and they
are in a boat with no ores and then they say "Oh shoot", but its to late. They
are going to take a fall, it may be a financial set back or the break up of a relationship
or maybe even a health problem, in almost all of the cases the fall could have been
prevented by making better decisions up stream.
By Anthony Robbins
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