{"id":1021,"date":"2009-07-22T22:49:45","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T02:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifewithhappiness.com\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:36:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T17:36:53","slug":"pay-attention-to-your-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2009\/07\/pay-attention-to-your-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Attention to Your Limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;Interestingly, Koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. When this same fish is placed in a large tank, it will grow to about nine inches long. In a pond Koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, Koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.&#8221;<\/em> &#8212; Vince Poscente<\/p>\n<p>Koi, of course, are more often known as the common goldfish.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve seen the above phenomenon play out when we&#8217;ve taken goldfish won at a carnival from a bowl on a shelf and moved them to our neighbor&#8217;s pond.<\/p>\n<p>The funny thing about this self-limiting growth is that the fish is completely unaware of their environmental constraints.\u00a0 They simply grow into what ever is available to them.\u00a0 In a like manner, human beings grow into the space that&#8217;s available to them, often without being aware of the constraints others have placed on them.\u00a0 We grow up to meet the expectations that others &#8212; and ourselves &#8212; have of us.<\/p>\n<p>A big difference between humans and fish, of course, is that the fish will never really be aware &#8212; whereas the human has the capacity to notice their environment and intentionally choose to change it.<\/p>\n<p>Do you choose to live your life in a small or big way?\u00a0 And if you&#8217;re not happy with where you are, what are you doing about it?<\/p>\n<p>In happiness, J<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Interestingly, Koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches. 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