The Scrooge Effect – Soon to be Released Business Book

“No space or regret can make amends for one life’s opportunity misused.” Charles Dickens, in A Christmas Carol.

In Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, the lead character Ebeneezer Scrooge, brilliantly played by Alister Sim in the 1951 film version, suffers some early emotional traumas that lead him to focusing on business success at the great expense of all else. At the height of his business success, he is visited by three spirits (past, present, future) on Christmas Eve who force him to face the expense side of his life. He repents, but fears it is too late. He then awakens on Christmas morning realizing he is still alive, with time to set things right. It is a beautiful story of personal redemption.
The Scrooge Effect isn’t business success from frugality or miserly and unethical behavior as in the case of the adult Scrooge; rather, it is repeating Scrooge’s Christmas morning, treating every day as a gift of opportunity, carpe diem, or as the Buddhists say “Live every day as if your hair is on fire”. You have a choice; to define your narrative as I will leverage every moment as an opportunity, as Scrooge began on Christmas morning, or tell yourself all the reasons you can’t do it; it is your choice. Choose to put the Scrooge Effect to work for you.