The Secret Behind “Green Eggs & Ham”

My last post about Dr. Suess got such rave reviews; I decided to crossover my bedtime story skills with my motivational skills once again. This won’t be the last because my two-year old daughter, Maeve, may actually have his entire catalog. Today, let’s focus on “Green Eggs & Ham”. For years and years I’ve thought about this book and how it relates to not only sales, but your goals and dreams in general. In the book, he asks in various ways 31 times, “Would you like green eggs and ham.” 31 times! At first, I thought Sam I Am was just a pushy salesmen who wouldn’t take no for an answer. I thought Dr. Suess could have just written a book called, “What’s It Going To Take To Put You In This Car Today”. How naïve of me.

Dr. Suess, Motivational Speaker?

Last night, I was reading a book to my 2-yr old daughter Maeve before she went to bed and was not only pleasantly surprised, but almost floored by Dr. Suess’ message. I will never forget that “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” was Maeve’s first in a long line of personal development books. Did Dr. Suess mean to have this effect? Not sure. Am I crazy? Perhaps. But, take a look at the following passages and tell me how you would perceive it: You can get so confused that you’ll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place…