Why does a Monarch butterfly do the things it does?
Here is a caterpillar, crawling around the earth and living just fine. Then, for reasons we can’t possibly fully know, it decides to create a cocoon and after a short isolation period, boom, it now has wings.
It now can fly somehow. Not only does it fly but it flies over 3000 miles to migrate in Central Mexico each year.
How does it know to do that?
What magic just happened in that cocoon?
I can’t be for certain but it’s a great metaphor for life.
We are always changing. We are always evolving our thinking. We are always moving forward.
Each day. Each minute. Each second.
Our thoughts and actions determine the person we will be tomorrow, and the next week, and the next year.
Unlike the caterpillar, we can choose our path forward.
We can create the life that we want even if today, reading this, we might not feel we can.
Those can be hard things; change, but we are capable.
We have to have the courage to take the risk of changing from a caterpillar to a butterfly.
We have to know we are capable of the hard work to create action and progress.
And then, we have to believe we can fly.