Now I know what your thinking, what is a Red Crab mindset? I'll tell you in a minute but I first want to discuss what this Red Crab goes through each year to survive.
Unlike most crabs, the red crab lives in the rain forest of Christmas Island. The problem however is that their offspring need to start there development in the ocean. So each year millions of these red crabs start a 15km hike towards the ocean. (15 km might not seem that much but I assure you when your 4.6 inches it would be far more difficult than your average marathon.). Let me also add that they are not walking along the sidewalk but in much more difficult terrain.
It may not seem like that big of deal overall, I mean it's a part of nature right. It's the way it was intended. True, but what isn't part of their nature is yellow crazy ants. A few years back a cargo ship contaminated the particular route that these crabs follow with yellow crazy ants that squirt poison into the eyes of these crabs, making them blind and helpless to billions of these ants. One year they nearly took out over 50 millions of these crabs alone.
That's not it, once through the yellow crazy ants they must now walk across the scorching hot beach without any water and there shells are exactly water absorbent. The males arrive first and now must now hope they don't get picked off by birds or other scavengers while they wait for their females for breeding. Once done the females must now wait on the beach to lay there eggs. Once they are ready all of the females take their sacks of roughly a thousand eggs and simply let them wash away in the ocean. Now that they got that out of the way they just simply get to go home. The exact same way they just came!!
So not only do the baby crabs have to somehow survive in the ocean with lots of fish and turtles and other creatures to eat them they also get to look forward to making their own great hike back through the forest where their parents just came from.
Doesn't seem fair after reading does it? I didn't think so either but it did get me thinking about how us as humans need to develop the mindset of the Red Crab.
My point is like the red crab we don't get to choose how our life starts. Some of us have it harder than others, and some don't, plain and simple. But that shouldn't stop is from hitting our goals. Like the red Crab we need to develop a 1 track mindset to our goals. The crabs know that if they don't make that treacherous journey they will become extinct. We need to have that same mentality and not allow road blocks to stop us from accomplishing great things. We need to persevere over all of the crap life throws at you. At times it may seem impossible and like the yellow crazy ants, people are going to try and stop you from hitting your goals. You need to buckle down, put your nose to the grindstone, put on the blinders and just keep marching forward, not worrying about what may happen or what people will say. Your not trying to hit their goals, your hitting your goals.
This was a very extreme example and I hope no one has to face challenges like the red crab does, but my point is still the same. Treat your goals like your life, do whatever it takes to achieve them. Don't let your goals fall by the wayside because you let other people distract you and throw you off track.
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