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NEGATIVITY CREATES A MENTALITY OF
LIMITATIONS
Life is hard
enough without creating artificial barriers that exist only in
your mind. You should regard life as a search and destroy
mission in which your main target is the limitations you find in
your mind.
Everyone experiences physical
limitations, and the longer you live, the larger your physical
challenges become. But, you learn how to work your way around
your restrictions using the power of your mind.
Quadriplegics can’t bounce a
basketball. Nevertheless, quadriplegic individuals can still
achieve excellence and even greatness in their lives. Although
they can’t achieve excellence in basketball, they still can
achieve excellence in one or more other areas. And that’s
really what life is all about; you continually chip away at the
limitations found in your mind so that you can have an excellent
life.
There is always room at the top
for people with vision, desire, and perseverance. The envelope
of possibility rarely hinders people at the top. Individuals at
the top spend their lives defining what’s possible rather than
listening to the limitations that pop into their mind.
People at the bottom continually
run into barriers they create in their own mind, which is why
they remain at the bottom. People at the bottom look
around, and all they see are barriers. People at the top
look around, and all they see are possibilities.
In an hour of concentrated
effort, a fully developed negative mind can come up with enough
limitations to last a lifetime. You must stop listening to the
negative internal monologue that sells a suitcase full of
limitations. Your only true limit happens when you quit
trying. When you throw in the towel and surrender, you are
saying this is as far as you can go, and it’s pointless to
persist.
I have seen two physically
challenged people who can write the script of limitations for my
life. Both of these people are mountain climbers; one is
paraplegic, and the other has no feet.
One individual was paraplegic as
a result of a climbing accident. After the accident, he decided
paraplegia wouldn’t prevent him from climbing El Capitan at
Yosemite National Park in California. He would overcome the
accident and conquer the mountain using only his arms since his
legs were useless for climbing. He trained with one of his
friends for the climb. The friend laid out a route up the side
of the mountain, and his job was to pull himself up using only
his arms.
Over several days of climbing, he
did thousands of pull-ups as he ascended the vertical face of El
Capitan. Each night, he slept in a harness attached to the side
of the mountain. Calling this climb arduous, is an
understatement. Nevertheless, by force of will and with the
help of his friend, he pulled himself thousands of feet up the
sheer vertical face of the mountain.
The second individual lost both
of his feet in a climbing accident. He didn’t want to give up
climbing, and the only way to continue was to create new
prosthetic feet to substitute for the missing ones. He created
light, durable carbon fiber prostheses that allowed him to climb
like Spiderman. He even made the artificial feet telescopic so
he could make the reach of his legs greater by extending the
length of the prosthesis before he started to climb. When you
watched him walk, you would never guess he was walking on
artificial feet, and when you watched him climb, you were amazed
as he ascended vertical walls of rock and mastered overhanging
rock faces.
The envelope of possibility is
unimaginably large, and it will continue to expand for as long
as the human spirit is committed to making dreams come true.
Choose worthwhile goals, and
never quit. You will probably never encounter any absolute
limitations anywhere except in your own mind. And remember,
limitations never preclude excellence; no matter what type of
problem or handicap you have, you can still achieve excellence
in at least one area of your life. Excellence is your
birthright as long as you don’t give in to the voice of
negativity and fear.
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