Breakout Moments
It occurred to me that we have “Breakout” moments when we can no longer be contained by the container.
Containers are patterns; think of them as cookie cutters. As long as you have that pattern, you will put out the same shapes. The dough composition may change but the final product looks like the container.
We keep tinkering with the recipe hoping to change the shape, but we turn out the same shapes only with a slightly different taste.
Breakout moments happen when your container breaks or changes shape.
Have you ever taken some sort of self-improvement class? The ads read: “Organize your Life in 3 Easy Steps,” “Finally Get A Handle on Your Finances,” “Selling Real Estate Made Simple” are just a few examples. All the classes contain valuable information but if you put them in the same container that you’ve used in the past, any success is often short-lived.
You’ve heard the expression “You can take the person out of (name of a demeaned city) but you can’t take the city out of the person.” That illustrates the concept of staying within the same container.
Seekers of the Holy Grail seem to think that if they know one more thing, that will be the ticket to their discovery. It winds up being a transfer to another bus with the promise that this is the vehicle that will take them there. The pattern keeps repeating and the results remain gingerbread men.
The thinking seems to be “I don’t have to change the way I am, only what I know.” That philosophy will keep your container in place. My experience is that we don’t need any more information to change; we need to alter our containers to grow.
You’ll be hard pressed to arrive at a new belief if you’re evaluating it with your current belief system. A start is to ask yourself: “What would be possible if I didn’t believe this?”
That sort of musing breaks you out of the container. It’s out of the container that life starts to take on new shapes.
All the best,
John
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