“Fed Pigeon Syndrome”
Beware of “Too” Easy
We have a large wild pigeon population in Honolulu. There’s a lot of food for them to eat all around us. Sometimes they find food on a condo lanai. Many people enjoy attracting them to their homes and the more food the more birds.
“Hey, I’m Hungry”
Sometimes a benevolent condo occupant moves, and the new resident doesn’t put out food, but some of the pigeons keep coming. They have become spoiled by the prior occupants. They feel entitled to the easy food and forget how to look for it. I never read “Who Moved My Cheese,” but I sense that may be what it was all about. It’s okay to take what comes easy, but never forget how to get it on your own.
July 9th, 2009 at 3:29 am
You have no idea the diseases birds carry. I have learned the hard way, so stay away from them, they pass diseases to us that weaken our immune system. That being said, give a man a fish …, teach a man to fish…. Learning to do for ourselves and what we can apply from our teachers who come in many forms, is what makes life easier. Be like a vacuum, and suck up all the knowledge you can get in on a daily basis in anything and everything that may be useful.
Our brain was designed to handle knowledge and learning for millions of years. There is no excuse for thinking we know it all. We never know when we are going to pull that tidbit of information out of our brain, and intuition is weighing said info and making a determination based on the balance of it all.
Sometimes you get an easy sale, sometimes you really have to use everything you know to close. At least if you have the tools in your arsenal you can pull them out. What if you have nothing in there, then you are going to lose the sale. I’m just saying, learn and grow. The best salespeople didn’t become that way overnight. And, stay away from them pigeons. Let them get their own food away from your balcony or lanai. Ick!
July 10th, 2009 at 7:05 am
It’s the human animal that carries the most diseases. Maintain your own immunity and you will not have to hate or fear any of God’s other creatures. Be there for all of them and God will be there for you.
July 10th, 2009 at 9:14 am
A friend of our family got lung cancer, and it was determined that pidgeon poop was the cause. Turns out there is a fungus in the poop that caused her lung cancer. they had to remove 2/3 of one lung, so she has a hard time breathing. In their looking at the diseased lung, they found this fungus. she had been feeding the pidgeons on her lanai everyday, hundreds of birds. no ones immune system can handle that much.
July 10th, 2009 at 9:23 pm
I’m not sure how these comments strayed so far away from the original message. I was into the “Who moved my Cheese?” comparison, but now it’s about “Who Cut the Pigeon Cheese?” It went from the danger of relying on “past easy pickings” to catching cancer from pigeon poop. I really don’t think the message here was grasped by the commentators. Was Who moved my cheese about mice??? I don’t think so.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Can’t we multitask here? Have you never heard of a sideline? Taking in knowledge about sales with a side of a pigeon warning is not a bad thing.
Mice in a maze got used to the cheese being in one place all the time and they got nice and fat and then someone moved the cheese and the premise is about how they react. Some mice just sat around and complained, one mice did something about it by scurrying around looking and looking and he finally found the cheese. The other mice died. Now apply that to sales.
We need to scurry around and figure out how to sell in tougher times because when the times get tough the tough get to sell smarter.