Sharing a story about how we create our own boundaries, every single day and try to work within the boundaries.
One day, a scientist drew a line around a moving ant on a table.
The ant walked around inside the circle. It tried to step over the line, attempting to cross it.
The scientist drew another circle within the first circle when the ant was moving. The ant started crawling within the smaller circle. It believed that it cannot cross the lines.
The same thing continued and the innermost circle became tiny leaving no room for the ant to move. That is when the ant decided to break free and walked past the line. Instantly, it realized that the lines were not walls, but self-created boundaries.
Breaking free from self-created boundaries happens when the ant finds the space too tiny to crawl. Until then, it was adapting to its circumstances.
We often create such boundaries in our personal lives. We do the same in the workplace and the roles we play. We also form such boundaries in the financial choices we make.
We feel life is being really unfair. We are being pushed to a corner with very little choices, and no wiggle room.
Think about it!
Maybe life is just reducing our wiggle room to help us break our boundaries!