Welcome to Let It Be Easy with Susie Moore.

Do you ever welcome in a remedy that's worse than the original problem?

I've done this before when I've hired people who I believe can almost like fill a need in my

business or maybe I'm panicking a bit or I'm in a bit of a rush and I'm like, oh, I just need

your help. I need your expertise. And I don't necessarily think it through. And then I get a mixed

results or an unwanted result. I think that we do this a lot in life. We make decisions very quickly,

especially when we are in a position of panic or need. And then with a bit of perspective in time,

we can regret those decisions, ones that we make when we're not feeling good, when we're not

feeling calm, when we are

feeling stressed out. And I have an incredible fable for you today on this topic, which is called

the hawk, the kite, and the pigeons. Okay? Here goes. The pigeons, terrified by the appearance

of a kite, called upon the hawk to defend them.

He at once consented. When they had admitted him onto the coat, they found that he had made

more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the kite could pounce upon

in a whole year.

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

You know, it's interesting.

I had my friend Kim Perel on the podcast a couple of months ago when her book came out,

the mistakes that made her a millionaire.

And she speaks about a time that she

hired ahead of sales because she was so busy and she couldn't be responsible for the sales team.

And look, the job was available. And so in her haste, she hired somebody who maybe looked good on paper

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