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Home Based Business Story The Importance
of Enthusiasm In Success
By Nick A. James
Falling off his lily pad was nothing new to Yerkle the frog. Sometimes
he enjoyed just sinking in the water, until he would thud- hit the bottom.
This would usually pull him out of his daze. Today, however as Yerkle hit
the water the other frogs were right there with a special surprise. They
had toilet papered his pad. Painted "kick me I'm stupid" on his frog butt.
And were now planning to give Yerkle a frog wedgie.
(Don't ask me how you give a frog that doesn't wear underwear a wedgie.)
Yerkle hadn't always been like this, at one time is was quite an enthusiastic
tad-pole. But years of being made fun of by mean students and even some
teachers had caused Yerkle to remain mostly to himself on his Lily Pad.
You see now Yerkle had all the enthusiasm of a kid who has been told
by his parents to "Clean out the Garage" on the first day of summer when
his friends were going down to the lake swimming.
The joke around the pond was what's more exciting? Watching Yerkle sit
on his Lily pad or watch paint dry. Why watching paint dry of course. At
least it won't make you want to croak!
However, as unexciting as Yerkle was, he was just as brilliant. He was
known around the pond as the "EggHead Genius." He was actually quite proud
of this title and even had a sign placed near his pad with the words, "Yerkle
the Frog- EggHead Genius!"
Yerkle was always thinking up incredible ideas. He would write them
in his journal, but that was as far as his ideas went. You see many of
the other frogs thought that his ideas were stupid...too far fetched to
work. They certainly couldn't get excited about any of them. Yerkle was
so boring and lacking of enthusiasm that is was contagious. The other frogs
just assumed that if Yerkle wasn't very enthusiastic about any of his ideas
than there was no way they should be either.
Time passed and then one day many years later Yerkle croaked and sunk
to the bottom of the pond. His many journals were placed in the local frog
library were they just sat collecting dust for several hundred years. Then
one day a young frog student named Kermit, while doing research in the
library uncovered Yerkle's journals.
Kermit was much like Yerkle in that he had constantly been made fun
of as a youth by the other frogs. But Kermit, while down hadn't been defeated.
He certainly had absorbed his share of "slings and arrows" but that hadn't
stopped Kermit.
Kermit started to read through Yerkle's Journal and became absolutely
fascinated. For in these journals dating back several centuries were the
ideas and plans for many incredible inventions. Like the FrogoCopter. He
sold those plans to Bell Helicopter for their latest modern day helicopter.
The Frogoputer, the forerunner of the modern day computer. He sold ths
idea to a couple of college guys by the names of Steven Wozniak and Steve
Jobs. That year in 1976 they started a company named Apple.
It even had the plans for a computer operating system called "WaterPads
95". He sold this to a whizkid Harvard dropout named Bill something or
other. He started a company with his buddy Paul out in Washington named
Microsoft and WaterPads 95 later turned into Windows 95. It was absolutely
amazing the list of ideas and inventions contained in Yerkle's journals.
He was even nicknamed Yerkle Da Vinci, after that famous human Leonardo
Da Vinci.
And what ever happened to Kermit. Well it seems Kermit in spite of his
rough upbringing in the pond rose above his rough surrounding. Kermit invested
the money he earned from these sales in a television production company
along with his friend Jim Henson. You probably know Kermit as the star
of TV and Movies as Kermit the Frog of Muppet fame.
And look at Kermit today. Kermit is always upbeat and enthusiastic,
you never see him down. And Kermit credits this enthusiasm to his great
business success today.
And what ever happened to those bullies who used to pick on Kermit.
Well their sour disposition caused them to greatly age before their time
(At only 35 they look at least 85). They now play a couple of old farts.
You've probably seen them, except now instead of Kermit they harass Fozzie
the Bear on Kermit's Muppet show.
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