I got some disturbing information on an old friend the other day. I knew him well about twenty or so years ago. Life being what it is I lost touch and haven’t spoken to him in years. I got an update on him a while back. He must be in his late forties by now. I hate to say that about anyone that is younger than I am. If you looked at his life twenty years ago and his life now, you would find only minor differences. He’s doing his hobbies, seeing the current movies, and keeping up on the job. That was his life when I knew him well. He was a student just getting by. Now he’s an older guy just getting by. What happened in twenty years? What happened that caused him to remain in status quo mode? What happened to him to make him stay where he was?
What would you have to believe to spend twenty years without any goals to better yourself? You’d have to believe some really negative limiting thoughts about yourself to be so stuck. It’s easy to condemn someone for being stuck that way. But don’t be so smug about that. What do you believe that is holding you back. Are you too old or too young? Do you not know the right people? Do you need money to make money? Would you have to go back to school to be taken seriously? Are those things true? What’s keeping you where you are now?
I have my limiting ideas as well. I discover them all the time and try to overcome them. They are so much a part of my basic programming that it’s hard to find them, let alone change them. They as much as anything are the obstacles between me and my quest. I’d bet you have yours haunting you as well.
I wish I had the answer to getting rid of yours and my limiting beliefs. I run into them from time to time and try to deal with them then. Knowing you have them is a start but you have to do the work to clean them out.
So ask yourself some hard questions along. Question the reasons that you can’t solve the next task on your quest. Are your limits real?
Quest On…..
