It’s so easy to blame limits. It absolves us of our responsibility so we don’t do anything and as a result, we stagnate.
It’s important to reframe limits as not something that stops us, but as a doorway to opportunity. As a mechanism to help us move forward. Limits FORCE us to make the best of things. It feeds and nurtures our creative spirit. It forces us to improvise, think of new ideas, create new things.
Instead of feeling sad and dejected, we should feel EXCITED. There’s something to work on now instead of being passive.
Contrast all that with no limits, which we think is the best, but it’s really not. If they’re no limits, we stop trying to make best of things. Everything is the “same”. We have limitless possibilities but they all feel like commodities. Everything becomes ordinary. It feels heavy. We feel stagnant and we feel like we have no right to complain about our situation. It’s so ironic.
It’s kind of like using cheat codes in a video game. At first, it’s great but then the game loses its meaning. Everything’s the same. You don’t have to work anymore. There’s no point in getting better at the game.
It’s the story many people have – envying the other side, not realizing that the very side they stand on is filled with treasures that are far greater.
So if you’re encountering issues with your life because of certain limits, get EXCITED. It’s a golden opportunity to create, improve, and grow in ways you never would’ve before.
Maybe you feel limited in making a big career move because you only have experience in a certain area so you feel really down, thinking it’s not possible. Add to that, nobody you know or heard of has ever made such a move. OK then, I guess you’ll be the first. Or maybe others have but you just don’t know it. Either way, you’ll find a way. It may take time but that’s OK. It’ll be very creative. It’ll call upon every resource you have and you’ll grow in ways you never would’ve before. All that BECAUSE of limits.
It’s sort of like “leveling up”. To be able to break your current limits, you have to be somebody greater. You have to do greater things. The very existence of limits acts as a force on you to grow in order to exceed it. It’s almost like an invisible symbiotic relationship.
The trouble comes when it seems like it’s taking too long to overcome the limits but that’s how the journey is. If it didn’t take long, it’s not much of a limit is it? You don’t need to grow that much to overcome it. That time is needed to transform yourself to break those limits.
This is how the world is changed. This is how we push forward. This is how new creations come about that changes the lives of generations to come.
This is how new pathways are formed – for others to follow and thus, for other limits to be broken as well.
