Is Your Frog Boiling? Ten Signs That Your Life May Be Spinning Out of Control and What You Can Do About It

By Richard Madow

Legend says that if you drop a frog into boiling water it will immediately jump out, but if you place a frog into a container of room temperature water and raise the heat, the frog will stay put until it boils to death.

Do you ever feel like the frog whose water is slowly getting hotter? Get out of the water! Learn the symptoms of “Boiling Frog Syndrome” and how to prevent them!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Richard Madow
• Release date: Jun 15, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452378565

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Is Your

Frog

Boiling?

Ten Signs That Your Life

May Be Spinning Out Of Control

And What You Can Do About It

DR. RICHARD H. MADOW

Co-author Love is the Best Medicine

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Is Your Frog Boiling?

Ten Signs That Your Life May Be Spinning Out

Of Control and What You Can Do About It

Copyright © 2010 by Dr Richard H. Madow

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Madow, Dr. Richard

To my parents, Lois and Selvin Madow, who have always loved me, and my children, Michelle and Steven, who I will always love.

Is Your Frog Boiling? Richard Madow

Inside This Book

Going Forward

Is Your Frog Boiling? How personal or professional challenges keep you from reaching your true happiness.

Symptom #1 Spiralosis: Thinking too much about too many things?

Symptom #2 Blameopathy: It’s not my fault! Or is it?

Symptom #3 ESPN Fever: It’s not about sports!

Symptom #4 Flockulitis: Is this the company you keep?

Symptom #5 Irritable Now Syndrome: Are you always picking up the pieces?

Symptom #6 Perfectonia: Uptight, gotta-get-it-right?

Symptom #7 Super-Extra-Crazy-Busy-I-Can’t-Do-It-Docious: No time left for you?

Symptom #8 Comparalysis: Wants overtaking needs?

Symptom #9 Rhyme Disease: Three words that stop you cold.

Symptom #10 What-If-ication: Two more words that seal the deal.

Symptoms of a Different Type

My Personal Frog

In Conclusion

Going Forward

Wouldn’t it be amazing if in just a short time from now you could:

• Accomplish more and worry less?

• Improve your family relationships?

• Enjoy your occupation so much that you look forward to arriving at work every day?

• Have more and better friends?

• Live a life marked by calm confidence and your own definition of success?

• Finally, become a truly happy person?

In "Is Your Frog Boiling? I will show you the legend of a frog, and how understanding ten simple symptoms" can change your life forever. Through real world practical examples, you will see how many of us get into hot water. You’ll also find out how to pull yourself out of the pot. By the time you reach the end, you will not only know if your frog is boiling, but how to prevent that from happening. Hopefully you’ll have some fun along the way.

There are people who choose one path and follow it predictably and safely through, no matter where it takes them. Then there are those who prefer to explore different roads, investigate new opportunities, and discover things along the way. I’m not about to tell you which is the correct way for you. I can tell you that once I was a practicing dentist and sometime musician. Now, I am a business owner, professional speaker, convention producer, writer and more. Oh—and still a sometime musician. I never would have predicted at my dental school graduation years ago that this would have been my path. But so it is, and here we are.

Taking my experiences as well as those of others and much research, I’ve developed a list of characteristics that prevent us from obtaining happiness and contentment in our lives. What I’ve done in Is Your Frog Boiling? is to identify the most common signs that show your life may be spinning out of control, made the symptoms easy to remember and identify, and then show several simple cures to banish these symptoms forever.

You will find that once your water is no longer boiling, you can accomplish more, find contentment, and get anything you want out of life. Let’s start by having a little visit with Freddy the Frog.

Is Your Frog Boiling?

Freddy the Frog is about to die—and you may be going right down with him. For quite a while now he has been happily swimming in a big pot of nice cool water. But very slowly, the temperature is being turned up. Poor Freddy doesn’t even realize it—and pretty soon, he will be cooked—boiled—until he is dead. How can Freddy—and so many of us—allow this to happen?

Legend has it that if you drop a frog into a pot of hot water it will immediately jump out, but if you place the frog into a similar container of room temperature water and slowly raise the heat, the frog will stay put. Gradually, degree by degree, it will be imperceptibly lulled into a boiling hot death.

Some scientists say that this is true because, unlike us, the frog is a cold-blooded animal whose body heat adjusts to climate changes outside of itself. It does not realize when the temperature changes. In other words, the amphibian will get tricked into a false sense of security about its surroundings until