There is a story about elephants and they owners in Africa. An elephant can easily uproot huge trees with it’s trunk, it can knock down a house without much trouble. When an elephant living in captivity is still a baby, it is tied to a tree with a strong rope or a chain every night. Because it is the nature of elephants to roam free, the baby elephant instinctively tries with all his might to break the rope. But it isn’t yet strong enough to do so. Realizing his efforts are of no use, it finally gives up struggling. The baby elephant tried and failed many times, it will never try again for the rest of his life. Later, when the elephant is fully grown, it can be tied to a small tree with a thin rope. It could then easily free itself by uprooting the tree or breaking the rope. But because its mind has been conditioned by its prior experiences, it doesn’t make the slightest attempt to break free. The powerfully gigantic elephant has limited its present abilities by the limitations of the past—hence, the Baby Elephant Syndrome. Human beings are exactly like the elephant except for one thing—We can chose not to accept the false boundaries and limitations created by the past…
“Don’t let your past dictate who you are, but let it be part of who you become” Anonymous
I’m not as good as I ought to be, I am as good as I want to be. I am not as good as I’m going to be. But I am thankful that I am better than I used to be” former UCLA basketball coach John Wooden
“The mind possibilities are limited by its concept of its potential” Na’Im Akbar, Ph.D
One very important tool that I’ve been using happily for a while already is the application of the Four Tolteque Agreements which you can find here in Frenchhttps://marioquesada.wordpress.com/?attachment_id=18
Have fun with it.
Mario Quesada 