When Wishing Isn't Enough...

We all have self-imposed limits.  What I believe I can't do and why I believe I can't do it are personal restrictions.  This is how we are standing in our own way.

We can learn how to get out of our own way.  It's a skill that can be taught.  It's painless and easy, it just takes time.  It begins with awareness of what we say to others and what we say to ourselves.  Any time you catch yourself saying "I can't because......", that is a self-imposed limit.  I'm not talking about changing your past, I am talking about limits involving why we can't live up to our own personal potential in this moment.

Here's an example.  In my childhood, I was told (often) I wasn't athletic.  Actually, I was a pretty good sprinter.  I believed outside sources and used it to stop myself from being at my highest potential of physical performance.  I chose not to try out for high school sports because I believed I wasn't athletic and I further believed everyone else who tried out for sports was athletic.  I have since realized that was a self-imposed limit.  I can change that belief to break through to new possibilities.

Part of success is knowing how to dream and wish for more than what we have currently, another part is the mental shift, then we use effort to move forward on our path, one step at a time.  It is all mind-body.  Using physical effort without mental change is so last year ;)

Changing mental beliefs along with effort is the shortcut to success.  It is so much faster than only using effort, hard-work and breaking through brick walls.  Finding and reducing self-imposed limits is like using heavy machinery to break through the brick walls.  Another option is walking around the brick wall.  If you believe life has to be hard, that is a limiting belief.  Changing that makes everything easier!

xo
Conni