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Business Lessons from a Porcupine

Guest post by: Rebel Brown

Article Overview: Sometimes I just love to laugh at the unexpected gems you can find on the internet. Especially the ones that show me a whole new perspective on something.

Business Lessons from a Porcupine

Sometimes I just love to laugh at the unexpected gems you can find on the internet. Especially the ones that show me a whole new perspective on something. Take something silly like porcupines. I always thought they were armadillo-like, snarly and aggressive, shooting at anything that came near them. Foul critters.

Check out this video (It's worth watching the whole thing.) I was so wrong!

Wow! This adorable little critter is NOTHING like my expectation! I want one of these cuties for my own critter family:)

So what are my lessons learned?

1. My status quo belief needs a massive update when it comes to porcupines - as with so many other out-of-date and just not true beliefs that limit my business and my life.

2. We all need to be more like this little porcupine. He ditched his status quo role and behavioral traning to reach out and find a new way to be. I'd say he's living a pretty successful porcupine life. When we ditch our own status quo about who we are, what our business delivers, how we should operate - we open the opportunity to step into a new way of being, free of our limitations, reaching for new and innovative ways to be.

My thanks to this prickly friend who reminded me of my third lesson - that in life and in business - anything is possible.

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