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Limiting beliefs don’t come on tablets
of stone from the hand of God. They are a choice, and I choose to not
have any.
It’s never hard to find people to tell me all the things I cannot do.
The Life Long Disoriented are experts at nurturing limiting beliefs and
transmitting them to others. They maintain a massive inventory of them
and delight in dispensing them to everyone living their dreams. They
know all the reasons why life is futile and dreams never come true.
They have a dump truck full of limitations ready to dump into my mind.
Limiting beliefs are a highly infectious disease, and I catch them from
other people. Millions of individuals suffer from this disease, and
they don’t hesitate to spread it around.
I am immune to the limiting beliefs of the Life Long Disoriented. I
vaccinate my mind with an injection of New Thoughts and New Actions, and
I follow that up with a booster shot of Never Quit. Every time limiting
beliefs pay a visit, I neutralize them with New Thoughts and New
Actions, and I Never Quit until the limiting beliefs are gone.
Copyright © 2013
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Sand driving teaches you about your limitations.
The first lesson you learn is that appearances are deceiving.
Traversing a sea of sand may look like a piece of cake, but fifteen
seconds later you are monumentally stuck with sand up to your chassis.
At other times, you look at what appears to be difficult terrain, and
you pass easily through it like you're driving in a mall parking lot.
You can't tell ahead of time how hard the slogging will become until you
get into gear and start moving. Appearances truly are deceiving.
The second lesson you learn is that
the only way to find out if
limitations are real is to test them.
If you want to live your sand dreams, you have to test the sand all the
time. You must allow yourself the luxury of testing your limitations
many times each day. When you do that, you discover that you can do
many things you previously considered impossible.
Take a look at the wheel tracks in this picture. One pair of tracks
leads to a Defender far off in the distance. When he went down the slip
face into the valley of doom, he kept on trucking. You can see two
patches of soft sand in his wheel tracks where he powered through
without getting stuck.
The second set of tracks belongs to a Nissan Patrol. This vehicle went
into the valley of doom and got stuck. His tracks show that he almost
made it out the other side on his first attempt, but he had to back up
and make another try. He made it out on his second go.
I'm standing on top of the dune surveying the landscape trying to figure
out which way to head. I had no clue as to whether I would get stuck in
the valley of doom, but I also had no choice. If I wanted to test my
limitations, I had to go down the slip face and see what happened. I
put the accelerator all the way to the floor in second gear when I hit
the bottom of the slip face, and I easily powered out of the hole.
That's the way life works. There's hundreds of sand traps out there,
and if you want to drive in the sand, it's inevitable that you will
discover many pits of apparent despair. That's to be expected, because
you are living your sand dreams.
If you want to live your dreams, you must test your limitations every
day. There is no other way.
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There are two ways to live. One
is to look for your limits, and the other is to test your limits.
Some people look for their limits. They travel through life
reading all the signs. Stop, Go, Speed Limit 60 mph, Detour, Exit
Only, No left Turn. They go wherever the signs take them.
They let the signs define their life. They are always looking for
limits and asking for permission.
Other people test their limits. When they travel through life,
they don't look for signs. They don't need anyone to tell them
what they can and cannot do. When they reach what appears to be a
limit, they test it to see if it's real, and they blow through their
limits again and again. They are the people who run the four
minute mile, who are blind and still climb mount Everest, who win the
tour de France seven times even though they had cancer.
That's your choice; you look for your limits or test them. The way you
handle limits makes all the difference in your life.
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