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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