Growing into your skin ...

Twice, recently, I've dialled in to a Teams call and learnt that a client (in Australia) found a snake in their house over the weekend:
"It was a harmless little SNAKE ... and it was in my kitchen."
Any way, as promised, here's my first metaphor for growth ...
It's: SNAKES.
Did you know that:
Snakes grow until they reach the limits of their skin.
And then, when the skin gets stretched to its limits, they shed it.
It’s the only way they can continue to grow.
This process repeats over their life time.
I LOVE bits about this metaphor, because it fits nicely with the core idea of the Theory of Constraints:
The skin represents a bottleneck, constraint or limitation.
It’s easy to visualise.
It shows that growth happens over a lifetime, but only if you shed your skin.
BUT ...
No one wants to be compared to a snake.
I don't ever tell my clients, "You're like a snake ..."
It is, however, useful for all of us to stop, ever so often, and consider whether:
you're still growing into your skin, or,
if it's come time to shed your skin?
More to come, Clarke
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