After I made my Better Closing presentation to 70 companies a few weeks back, all have made progress with their Leave Behind and our growing their companies successfully. Some have asked me about personal growth and how that happens as well. For over twenty years, I tell a simple story about Boundary Expansion, describing an island and rock throwing.
Picture yourself on an island and you are comfortable on that island and you look out and you see, but you stay on the comfortable island and only explore the island. Well, to grow, you have to explore beyond the island. So, I say throw some rocks as for as you can, and then jump out on them and go further out, explore past the island. If you like what you see, keep the stepping stone rocks there and come back. On another day, from that farthest rock, throw out rocks even farther, and go to them. You expand your boundaries even farther. The magical thing is that the island will expand and grow to the farthest rock you like-so your comfort zone will grow. If you do not like the direction you currently throw the rocks, then throw them in another direction and explore that way. Keep throwing rocks everyday and you will expand that much. Eventually, you make a full continent or you will connect with a full continent.
What are the rocks? They may be your visions of the future, they may be hobbies, they may be new actions you do, a new job, a new meeting-just throw. Each throw will expand your island and you comfort zone.
So, go throw some rocks.
