I’ve been doing a personal inventory looking for assumptions that I have accepted as stone cold truths. It all sounds lofty? No, not really. They are silly limitations I stopped questioning long ago – a string of self-imposed personal handicaps and unforced errors. We all have them.
We think we’re good at this -- and can’t do that. We were born with XXXX. Are we lacking YYYY? What?
It all goes back to the elephant in the room. It’s all in the training. When a handler gets a baby elephant, he ties a rope around the baby’s leg. The other end is tied to a tree or a peg. No matter how hard the baby struggles, the elephant can’t get loose from that rope. Over time he stops trying. Later when the elephant is grown, the handler ties him in the same way. The adult elephant has no idea that he could break that rope with a flick of his huge leg and walk away.
We’re each have a lot in common that baby elephant, struggling at the end of his confining rope. The issues we fight when we’re young can become our self-imposed adulthood handicaps and limitations.
For example:
How many people have decided that they just aren’t good at math? How can you handle money or run a business without math? Isn’t that our scoreboard?
How many of us assume that we are NOT good at dealing with people? With whom are you going to work—monkeys? How are you going to attract your customers?
How about those who have a chip on their shoulder? Each has their long list of reasons why they can’t succeed. And failure is sure never their fault…
Think about it. What’s your story and when did you decide these issues are your truth? What are your self-imposed handicaps and assumptions?
We think we’re good at this -- and can’t do that. We were born with XXXX. Are we lacking YYYY? What?
It all goes back to the elephant in the room. It’s all in the training. When a handler gets a baby elephant, he ties a rope around the baby’s leg. The other end is tied to a tree or a peg. No matter how hard the baby struggles, the elephant can’t get loose from that rope. Over time he stops trying. Later when the elephant is grown, the handler ties him in the same way. The adult elephant has no idea that he could break that rope with a flick of his huge leg and walk away.
We’re each have a lot in common that baby elephant, struggling at the end of his confining rope. The issues we fight when we’re young can become our self-imposed adulthood handicaps and limitations.
For example:
How many people have decided that they just aren’t good at math? How can you handle money or run a business without math? Isn’t that our scoreboard?
How many of us assume that we are NOT good at dealing with people? With whom are you going to work—monkeys? How are you going to attract your customers?
How about those who have a chip on their shoulder? Each has their long list of reasons why they can’t succeed. And failure is sure never their fault…
Think about it. What’s your story and when did you decide these issues are your truth? What are your self-imposed handicaps and assumptions?
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