Big Fish Small Pond - Positives.

In earlier blogs I wrote about the negatives of keeping bigger fish in a small pond, today I am going to mention the positives, using not fish for my example but an old obscure Roger Miller song called, ‘Kansas City Star.”

In that song the singer was offered “a
better job at higher wages, expenses
paid and a car”. All of which he turned
down because although the offer was
good and far superior to what he
already had in many respects.
He turned it down because in the words
of the song, “But I'm on TV here locally
and I can't quit, I'm a star.” 

He couldn’t take the better job because
although in the bigger scheme of things
he was only a minnow, in his old place
he was a big fish. He was ‘’The Star”.

It is the same with biggish fish in a
small tank. There they stand out, where
as if you put them in a bigger tank with
bigger fish, they just get lost in the back
ground.

Sometimes our lives are like that too,
aren’t they? We all want to swim in the
big tank with the big fish, but when we
get the chance, we often find it is not
what we expected and wish we had
never left our small tank.

Sometimes we just have to be like the
guy in Roger’s song and really evaluate
just what we would have to give up to
get “higher wages, expenses paid and
a car”. Is what we will get, really worth
giving up all that we currently have?
Yes sometimes it truly will be better for
us to be in a bigger tank with more
potential for growth, but often we are
better off where we already are. The
secret is in knowing that fact.

 What about you now? Are you happy
where you are? If so, then stay there.
If not then move to the bigger tank, but
remember often there is no going back,
so do be 100% sure before you move:
Walter.

 KANSAS CITY STAR

(Roger Miller)

 Roger Miller

 Got a letter just this mornin' it was postmarked Omaha 

It was typed and neatly written offerin' me this better job 

Better job at higher wages, expenses paid and a car 

But I'm on TV here locally and I can't quit, I'm a star 

 Hah-ha I come on the TV a-grinnin,' wearin' pistols and a hat 

It's a kiddy show and I'm a hero of the younger set 

I'm the number one attraction at every supermarket parkin' lot 

I'm the king of Kansas City, no thanks, Omaha, thanks a lot 

 Kansas City star, that's what I are 

Yodel-leedle lay-dee, you oughta see my car 

I drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels, 

Got rhinestones on the spokes 

I got credit down at the grocery store 

And my barber tells me jokes 

I'm the number one attraction at every supermarket parkin' lot 

I'm the king of Kansas City, no thanks to Omaha, thanks a lot 

 Kansas City star, that's what I are 

Yodel-leedle lay-dee, you oughta see my car 

I drive a big old Cadillac with wire wheels, 

Got rhinestones on the spokes 

I got credit down at the grocery store 

And my barber tells me jokes 

I'm the number one attraction at every supermarket parkin' lot 

I'm the king of Kansas City, no thanks to Omaha, thanks a lot 

 SPOKEN: Stay tuned, we're gonna have a Popeye cartoon in a minute