LOL That's what my husband says when he meets up with a voracious, destructive garden snail as he throws it up in the air. Then comes "BUMMER! He didn't get his wings out in time!"

My husband was born under the Cancer sign; the crab. My husband has all the traits of a real crab as well as his sing. A crab's main thing is to crawl AROUND anything that gets in their way... waaaay around! If I thought it would do any good, I'd give him this motivator by Ralph Marston.

"If you run away from a problem, you will soon encounter an even stronger version of it. Instead, turn to face the problem, work your way through it, and then it will never be able to hold you back again.The path to freedom is not through avoidance and denial. For that strategy only ends up heaping more trouble on top of the trouble that's already there."

An interjection is needed here. My youngest boy was the epitome of "scardy cat." I mean, he would run out of the room when anything slightly resembled "scary" on TV. He'd hide behind a door until the moment passed. Then one day, the hills that surrounded our ranch caught fire. The canyon we lived in eventually all burned, but thankfully leaving homes, barns and animals intact. This was a turning point for my boy. He and I were home alone that day and there was nothing we could do but face our fear head on. At 12, he joined forces with the neighbors, got the hoe and shovel from the barn and started attacking the small fires that erupted in small clumps of weeds. When his dad came home to help fight the fire, they went up into our lemon orchard and started throwing dirt, again on the smaller fires. When the flames got out of control and were closing in on my goat pen, I ran for help from other neighbors. The fire department just parked their trucks and watched.

A neighbor's friend and his crew responded immediately and set a back fire. My boy was so interested in the back fire method of putting out fires, he was right in the thick of things and at the same time, trying to reassure me.

Today, the boy grown into full manhood is afraid of NOTHING!

"The path to [his] freedom is [was] through truth, acceptance, effort and determination. There is no problem that can survive such a positive onslaught."

It was painful to him, a high inconvenience, messy, complicated and no doubt embarrassing for him but he dealt with all of it and came out on the other side, victorious. Now he doesn't have to waste his time dealing with an old problem over and over. It's because he met his problem head on.

If he had run away from his problem, avoided it by going to school instead of staying and fighting the fire, he may have well been pulled out of school against his will to help the rest of the residents when the fire grew enough to threaten our home. By staying, he not only faced his fear and overcame it, he still, to this day, brags about the fire he helped put out.

"So which outcome would you prefer? Choose to promptly deal with it, and choose to be truly free."

To see how I applied Ralph Marston's motivation for today with a true story from my life, check out his web page.

Ralph Marston's Daily Motivators