The Caterpillar Effect
The Hustler’s Blueprint
What comes to mind when you hear someone reference themselves as a hustler? You assume the person is working toward accomplishing something major in their life.
The next time you hear “I’m grinding” or “I’m hustling,” don’t bother asking for specifics. Just know that the person is expecting a major change in their life.
So, as I’m relaxing from my nine to five, focusing on the dynamic of a hustler, I see a butterfly around my patio. I can’t remember the last time I came in contact with a butterfly, especially one so vibrant. Eventually, it parks itself on my patio as though it was taking a breather or possibly it was curious what I was up to. Who knows? Minutes lapsed before it flew away. As I watched it take flight, I thought about the process it took to get here.
There’s a time in a butterfly’s life when it’s not so pretty. Matter of fact it’s downright ugly; a slime-textured hairy contrast of what I saw on my patio.
It suddenly occurred to me that the caterpillar owns the ultimate blueprint.
The caterpillar recognizes it has a higher calling and strategically starts preparing to morph.
At birth it determines whether it has the capacity to be either a moth or a butterfly and begins making preparation to spin it’s covering.
The caterpillar destined to become a butterfly and develops inside a Chrysalis. Cocoons are reserved for the caterpillar, whose destiny is to become a moth, which is similar to a butterfly, except it doesn’t have a strong antenna or the vivid color associated with a butterfly.
In preparation for the development inside the Chrysalis, the caterpillar begins to feed itself with plants, absorbing everything it needs until it’s nice and plump.
After the hunger phase, if the caterpillar feels it has whatever it needs to morph, it stops eating and hangs upside down from a branch or sturdy structure where it begins spinning it’s silk covering.
Inside the Chrysalis, the metamorphosis gets underway, and the caterpillar prepares to release essential body parts (legs, eyes, and wings) that stay dormant inside the caterpillar’s body until it’s ready to change.
The radical transformation soon begins as the caterpillar digests itself with enzymes, dissolving all of it’s tissue except the essential body parts sometimes referred as “imaginal discs.”
Subsequently, the liquid cells began reconstructing into a completely new body. The caterpillar is gone, and the butterfly emerges.
