Chapter 72The Pumpkin Shaped Like A Jug
A farmer exhibited at a county fair a pumpkin
in the exact shape of a two-gallon jug.
This unusually-shaped pumpkin caused quite
a lot of comment and, of course, the farmer was asked how
he accomplished it. "When the pumpkin was no bigger
than my thumb," he explained, "I stuck it in a glass jug
and just let it grow. When it filled the jug, it quit growing."
What the walls of the jug did to the pumpkin,
our plans do to us. Our plans shape-and limit-our lives,
just as the jug limited the pumpkin. We can never be bigger
than our plans.
As one of the master strategists of life admon-
ished, "Make no little plans!"
Place no limit, no restriction, on your goals in
life. MAKE no little plans! And do not let others, for what-
ever purpose, limit your goals. ACCEPT no little plans! For
your plans will shape-and limit-your life just as surely as