Day 204: Like a lobster...

So I was recently in a practice with one of my one on one clients and I pulled up this old rabbi who just has a lot of wisdom and he was talking about stress. My client was talking about how stressed out he was and it was turning into anxiety. And so I remember seeing this clip, it's like a two minute clip. And I pull up, had him watch it. And in a nutshell, basically the rabbi, he speaks about how lobsters have a shell and the shell does not expand, but the lobster itself is kind of mushy and that does. And what happens is, is that a lobster every once in a while will grow inside that shell and they start to get restricted in the shell. So they go climb behind the rock and they pop that shell off and it grows another shell. And then that whole process rinse and repeats over and over because the lobster continues to grow. And it's just like us in life. You know, we have situations that are stressful that constrain us and we feel like we're just, you know, things are caving in on us when actually those are the exact situations and scenarios that we need to be in so that we can pop off the shell and grow and grow more. And so there's a lot to learn from a lobster, apparently. And so whether 204 in the book or what I just shared with you is a nuance that you can take away and do something with. Realize wherever you are right now and find yourself either in a stressful situation or coming out of one, or you're going into one, know that it's your perspective on the stress itself that makes it good or bad. And you'll come out of it growing if you have the right mindset and you don't have to make yourself miserable by punishing yourself while you're stressed out, while you're in the midst of it.