Home Based Business Story The Importance of Enthusiasm In
Success
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.