By and large, our success is a reflection of our attitudes, beliefs and thinking. We are prisoners of our own thinking and our limitations are set by conditioning our beliefs as what we accept to be true for us. Our outer world or what we are and have is basically determined by what we accept to be true. Nature has coded our DNA with what we need to succeed, but we determine what happens by our conditioning and thinking. Here are a couple of powerful, true analogies. Flea training: A flea (small insect) has a built-in mechanism that allows it to survive and propagate its species against all odds. The flea reproduces small eggs that require a warm-blooded mammal to hatch and then when it does, it can be nourished from biting and sucking the blood of the host. It lays thousands of eggs and they can remain dormant for long periods of time until the timing is right. Fleas are common where there is a population of animals (farms, zoos, pet shops, pounds, houses with dogs and cats, forests with communities of deer, etc). They are able to jump very high – several feet in order to land on a new “host” to feed and breed. When you consider their body size, that would be equivalent to a human jumping 100 yards. That is pretty amazing. So here is how you train a flea. Put the fleas in a large, empty gallon pickle jar (like my bean jar). Put the lid on. Shake the jar and tap on the side to stir the fleas up. The stimulus causes them to jump full force (several feet or equal to 100 yards for a human). They hit the lid of the jar with tremendous force. Hitting the lid of the jar with such force is painful. After about 30 minutes of this, you can take the lid off of the jar and the fleas will not jump out. They react to the impact of hitting the lid and adapt by jumping with less force and are conditioned to jump just shy of hitting the lid. When you take the lid off and give them the opportunity to use their innate potential again and jump far, they continue to jump just shy of the height of the lid as if it were still on. Isn’t it interesting that we as humans respond the same way? When limitations are taken off, we refuse to use our potential because of conditioning and pain of prior limitation. We will not go as far as we can go or think bigger to achieve great things. The moral is simple. Do not be like a flea when the lid is taken off of opportunity. Think big and go for it. You will never be bigger than your thoughts and you are capable of going much further than your limitations, which are nothing more than past conditioning. You too can spring as high as you want to go. Our evolution and DNA gave us the ability to create and do anything that we believe is possible.,, - See more at: beingjrridinger/business-building/flea-and-elephant-training-lessons-for-entrepreneurs/#sthash.gNnKGgcN.dpuf JR Ridinger
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 15:01:02 +0000