BE FREE enough

There's this story about some farmers who were to plant pumpkins on a piece of land. Owing to mistake, a particular farmer's pumpkin seed fell into a glass jar hanging by the vine and he decided to have it grow in it. At harvest time, he saw that the pumpkin had grown in perfect proportion to the shape and size of the jar and all the other pumpkins well planted were far bigger than his.

Many of us wouldn't expect more.
That pumpkin had walls built around it, and it could only grow as much as the capacity of the Jar. Apparently two things were wrong with that pumpkin; Firstly it grew under restrictions and Secondly it was growing in the wrong environment.

Interestingly those farmers are each and everyone of us, and the pumpkin are our thoughts. The greatest human restrictions are not the physical walls of prisons, the greatest human prisons or restrictions is in our mind, in our thoughts. We only are responsible for the building of these walls around ourselves. As difficult as it might be to cross physical boundaries it is even more challenging  to cross the boundaries you create in your head. The boundaries you set in your mind becomes the limit to whatever you can create, who you can be and how far you can go or how much you can grow.

Our boundaries control how we maximise our capabilities. The truth is we are all blessed with unlimited capabilities and resources, we can BE FREE enough to explore them. It is said that you are what you think and you can never be better than who you think you are, why not just think the best.. so you can be the best.

Asides the limitations, another problem the pumpkin had was Environment. It couldn't have been well rooted, it couldn't have got the best nutrients for growth. Many a time coupled with limitations or not, we trap ourselves with environments, habits and people that wouldn't let us grow. And we know because we are built to work best doing things that we enjoy doing and keeps us connected to our source. It is very important that we surround ourselves with the best possibilities for growth.

Go ahead and break those walls, BE FREE, think outside the box, make ridiculous decisions, break protocols, bring out the best in you and do all u can to be continually better than your best, expand your horizons  because  there is a lot of unexplored horizons out there. And more importantly surround yourself with the best possibilities for growth.