Destroy the boxes

What boxes are you surrounded by?

Boxes are those things that we label ourselves with. For example, wife, partner, husband, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, manager, leader, school teacher, janitor, hairdresser, sad, lonely, bored, depressed, happy.

Labels, we use them all the time in many different ways, and in most cases we are using them to define who we are - when that is not who we are at all.

The trouble with boxes is - they're comfortable. They are our zones of comfort, they form the edges that surround the periphery of our own lives, and the lives that others expect us to live.

What did you want to be when you grew up? Did you want to be an actor, an airline pilot, a school teacher. Did you want to design handbags or write several best sellers.

Did you get the support from your peers? Your parents, your teachers? Or were you expected to fall into the line designated by societal norms?

As my children are growing up, I am amazed at the opportunities that surround them. My daughter goes into year 11 next year, and has chosen psychology as one of her subjects....when I was her age, that was the realms of uni students, and way out of the scope of my schools teaching.

I have tried so many times to explain to my children, that they can be whatever they want to be when they eventually grow up. The important thing right now is to test the edges of their boxes to ensure that they don't fall into the habit of settling for whatever the teachers tell them they should be doing. Making them settle for average.

How about you? Have you settled into an average kind of lifestyle and existence? Have you considered what life would be like if you climbed out of the box you are currently in...do me a favour and climb out right now, Then I would like you to sit on it. Depending on how many labels you have, will depend how many boxes you need to climb out of, and then sit on. But unless you are willing to look at the pile of boxes that you are surrounded by, and deciding which ones you are willing to keep, then you will always be stuck in the same place, doing the same way - which means you will ALWAYS get the same result.

Which is both a good and a bad thing.

If your life is fantastic, then you have worked out what boxes you are willing to keep and which ones you are willing to destroy. It means that you are doing well at whatever you have chosen to do, and you will keep on repeating those things to ensure you do more of the good, to receive better results next time.

But if on the other hand, your life is in a bit of a mess at the moment, something tells me you are allowing yourself to be overwhelmed by your boxes. You don't know what you really want and so you sit in your box and wait for someone to throw you a lifeline. Well this is your lifeline.....are you willing to take it?

With Many thoughts,
Elle
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