Education
I recently learned how a circus trains elephants to stay in a certain area. A baby elephant is trained at birth to be confined to a very small space by Its trainer tying its leg with a rope to a wooden post planted deep in the ground. This confines the baby elephant to an area determined by the length of the rope – the elephant’s comfort zone. Though the baby elephant will initially try to break the rope, the rope is too strong, and so the baby elephant learns that it can’t break the rope. It learns that it has to stay in the area defined by the length of the rope. When the elephant grows up into a 5-ton colossus that could easily break the same rope, it doesn’t even try because it learned as a baby that it couldn’t break the rope. In this way, the largest elephant can be confined by the puniest little rope. Perhaps this also describes you – still trapped in a comfort zone by something as puny and weak as the small rope and stake that controls the elephant, except your rope is made up of the limiting beliefs and images that you received and took on when you were young. How many times have things that were limitations in the past taught us that we cant do it now, or in the future? Do not allow your past to stop you from doing what you want to do today. You’re a different person today than you were yesterday. President Franklin Roosevelt. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds,” This is true for all of us. You are so powerful. Your greatness is limitless, confined only by the limitations you put on yourself. In short, “Don’t be as naive as an Elephant.”