January 18, 2014
“We’re like lobsters,” said Nancy. “If we don’t grow, we die.” Nancy and I are at a speaking workshop in Orlando, led by world-renowned speaker Les Brown. We’ve been through 8 straight hours of drills, one-on-one coaching, and partner feedback in a cramped conference room. I’m worn out. It’s taking all of my energy just to sit upright. The fluorescent lights begin to flicker. Or it is my eyelids fighting not to close? I’m craving caffeine. Dark chocolate. I’d even jog around the swimming pool in my pencil skirt and 2” pumps. Anything for an energy boost. That’s when Nancy springs the lobster story. “There’s a lot we can learn from a lobster,” she says. “Lobsters have no bones or skeletons to give their bodies structure. They have a hard outer shell called an exoskeleton. But the shell doesn’t grow as the lobster inside it grows. Instead, when the lobster feels cramped, hormones tell the lobster it is time to get rid of its shell. If it doesn’t, the shell becomes a coffin. Once it…
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