There is a story of a fisherman who brings a ruler with him every day while fishing.  He measures every fish he catches, throwing back the big ones.  One day someone asks him why he doesn’t keep the big ones and he replies without hesitation that he only has a 12 inch pan.  Some people see this as a matter of practicality—there isn’t room in the pan for the larger fish.  Some people see this as a problem where the man could have just cut the fish.  But there is one more lesson, one more possibility: what if he just needed to get a bigger pan?  When we limit ourselves to the size of our meal, our speech, our dream, we limit the results we get in our lives.  There comes a time when we have to consider that we aren’t dreaming big enough.  If we break ourselves down to fit in the box (the pan so to speak) we are cutting out or throwing back the pieces of ourselves that could be the most valuable.  How do we solve that?  We need to get a bigger vessel.  Sometimes we need to dream bigger and get rid of the ruler because the only limits we see or feel are in our own minds.  Sometimes we limit what we do because we’re afraid of what more really means—that we CAN do more.  When we remove the box, we remove all limitations, when we see there was never a real measuring stick, anything becomes possible.