The coast of Maine is one of the most dear places in the world to me.
My father grew up there, my grandfather was a shipbuilder there for decades, and I’ve visited the state 30-40 times in my life.
When I came as a child I would climb the rocky shoreline with my brother, looking for crabs and other creatures hiding under the seaweed.
My father taught me how the tides worked, how to tie essential knots, and how to identify the birds of the area.
And we talked about lobsters. My father was a lobsterman for a summer when he was growing up, and he’d tell me all about where the lobsters lived, what they ate, and how they grew.
They grow by a fascinating process called molting:
- Every lobster has a shell. Its interior body grows, but the protective outer shell does not.
- So every summer, the lobster sheds its old hardened shell, revealing a new soft shell underneath.
- For 1-3 weeks, the lobster is vulnerable to predators because its new shell is so soft.
- The soft shell gradually expands and hardens to form a new hardened shell, slightly bigger than the previous one.
Human beings are like this too.
We have old patterns that we’ve been carrying around and using for protection.
And they work, to a degree, but eventually we outgrow them. The life we want is too big for the old shell.
And the only way to grow and have more of the life you want is to shed your old pattern and create a new one.
This might be uncomfortable temporarily, but it leads to bigger and better things on the other side.
Last Friday I opened three spots in my 1-on-1 coaching program called Changes That Last.
In 12 weeks we’ll shape two of your old patterns into new practices so you have fewer headaches and more satisfaction.
Together we will shed your old shell.
And build you a bigger, stronger shell.
If you’d like to join, use the ‘question’ submission at the bottom right part of this page and ask when the next opening will be.
