A plant is constrained or free to grow in direct relationship to the space in which it is planted.
If you want to contain and keep your plant the same size, then keep it in the same environment—the same planter, the same home it currently lives in. Do not replant it into a larger pot, planter, or garden.
Now, if you want your plant to grow fuller, bigger, wider, and taller, then you must move it into an environment where the roots can stretch, expand, and grow. Enable the trunk, branches, leaves, and flowers to grow in equal proportion to its home and to its greatest potential.
Your New Growth Mindset: Get a Larger Pot
This isn’t a lesson in gardening plants. This is a lesson in gardening self. If you have a growth mindset, you must continue to put yourself in a larger pot, plant yourself in a wider piece of earth and a more expansive environment for you to be able to push the bounds of possibility.
But a plant’s pot size is vital not only to how much it can grow. It’s vital to the plant’s own survival. Cramped roots, crowded greenery, and not enough soil can lead to parts of the plant dying from lack of access to vital nutrients.
To keep our creativity, spontaneity, ambition, and zeal for life alive, we also need to constantly place ourselves in an appropriately sized environment.
Self-Evaluation
If you can’t tell whether or not you need a larger pot? Answer some of these to get an idea:
- Do you feel stuck?
- Have you grown in the past 6 months? Year? 5 years?
- What’s blocking you from growing?
- When was the last time you created something?
- When did you last have an appreciation for life?
These should give you a quick look into the size of your pot and if it’s time to upgrade. Fight complacency. Fall in love with growing pains. Find solutions to obstacles. Thrive.
