You Haven't Hit Your Peak Yet!

20Self-Improvement

Who do you want to be when you grow up?

I’ve always been fascinated by the Japanese carp, otherwise known as the koi. It’s a fish with seemingly unlimited growth potential. If you put the koi in a small fish bowl, it will only grow to be two or three inches long. In a larger tank or a small pond, it will reach six to ten inches. A bigger pond, and it gets to be a foot and a half. But if the koi is placed in a large lake, where it can really stretch out, it can grow up to three feet long. The size of the fish is proportional to the size of its home.

Well, it works that way with people too. We grow according to the size of our world. Not physically, of course, but mentally. You too can be a mental giant!

They say you learn something new every day. I would take that statement one step further and say that you need to learn something new every day.

Waiting for someone to teach you a lesson (translation: the hard way) is a poor way to get an education. You have to make the effort to learn and grow so that you are worth more to your employer, coworkers, friends, and family. Your potential is unlimited.

The beautiful part is that you can grow as much as you want. Your mind has plenty of room to hold information. In fact, I recently read that we typically use only 10 percent of our brains. Would you be satisfied to get that little service out of any other part of your body?

My guess is that most folks fall into some comfortable habits and are content with the status ...