Four Keys That Unlock All Limitations
" Any person who
selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved, has already
defined his own
limitations."
- Cavett Robert
(1907-1997)
Businessman/Speaker
We have all
faced limitations in life. For some it
may be psychical limitations. For others
it may be educational, financial or personal.
In reality, most of the limitations we face are set in our own mind and
really do not exist. We think we cannot
do things and therefore we don't. This
can also happen with success-minded people in goal setting. They set a goal they know they can achieve in
order that they will not fail. The thing
is, they do fail since they have set their own limitations and have not allow
themselves to be excellent in all they do.
To be extraordinary is to do
what other, ordinary people, do not do.
To achieve goals that are beyond what you are capable of and to excel in
what even you did not know you could.
Here are four keys that can unlock the limitations you have placed on
yourself and allow you to be the extraordinary person you were created to be.
Key #1. Unlock the impossible
Walt Disney said, "It is
fun to do the impossible." Most of
what he achieved in his life time was thought, by rational and reasonable
people, to be impossible. But he did
it. How?
Because he believed he could. The
first step to doing the impossible is to believe there is no impossible. Everything thing we have around us now was
once considered impossible. Never allow
the fact that something has not been done, that it is too big, or that you
don't know where to start, stop you from going for the impossible. Follow the instructions of Saint Francis of
Assisi, " Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and
suddenly you are doing the impossible."
Key #2. Unlock your abilities
A goal is not worth the effort
if it does not stretch you beyond what you thought you could do. Set goals and have dreams that will take you
to the limits of your abilities and then take one step beyond that. None of us really know what we are capable of
until we have reached the limits, and then we can go beyond. All the great inventors and achievers were
the most surprised of all people on their successes. You can do far more than you think you can if
you give yourself permission to do it.
Key #3. Unlock the excitement
If a goal is dull and
uninspiring you will not do what is necessary to achieve it. The passion for an exciting goal is the fire
that drives us to do the extraordinary.
Keep your goal before you at all times.
Dream about it, look at pictures of it and be excited. The more that a goal thrills you the more you
will do to achieve it. Look at your life
as poet, Maya Angelou did her life, when she said, " My mission in life is
not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some
compassion, some humor, and some style."
Key #4. Unlock the rewards
Some people like to say that
they do not go after their goals for the rewards, but for the satisfaction of
doing it. That is true, but the rewards
are nice too. Wealth is never the
purpose for achievement, but it is a wonderful reward of achievement. What are the rewards that you can get for
achieving your goal? Keep them before
you as well. Rewards are what we earn
from being excellent at what we do. In
the words of the great Sophie Tucker, "I've been rich and I've been
poor. Rich is better."
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