Dopey, With a Grain of Truth

My professor was making some snide comments about "Fish" last week, and I realized not only did I still have a copy, I had the little stuffed fish from my district conference that came with it. So I got it out and read it again. Like with all self-help and business books, there is usually a good idea or two in them. But to beat those ideas into our heads, and to make a thick enough book people will spend 20 bucks to buy it they have to belabor the point. Although this book is smaller than most of those other books, it still has only four points to make which would have made a nice pamphlet. But instead they have surrounded it with the hokiest, corniest little story that verges on melodramatic at times. But as I was starting to get a little down on myself this week, it was a nice reminder that life is what you make of it. Grumbling has it's place, but so does a little over-the-top enthusiasm. And I need to take that dopey little story and get a little "fish" back in my game.

(P.S. Now I'm hungry for goldfish crackers!)

5/10