You Can Only Be Limited By Your Own Self
A lot of people are looking for some external factors that they can blame for what is going on or not going on in their lives, while they fail to realise that nothing limits an individual like their own self. If you cannot limit yourself then you will become almost unstoppable. One needs to understand that external factors just play very small and often negligible role in any limitation experienced by an individual, while the bulk of it rests on the person's shoulders. Surprisingly enough, what people complain about lack of opportunity is simply the lack of ability to see opportunities. So it is not that there is no opportunity but they have limited themselves from accessing it. This is why you have to begin from within to fight the battles facing you.
One of the worst self-limiting factor is fear. The moment you start to nurse fear in your mind, that is the moment you have opened up yourself to limitations. There was a time, many years ago, that I suddenly developed an irrational fear about a particular exam because of the stories I was told about how difficult, tough and hard the exam is. But that particular exam was very instrumental to going to the next, and obviously higher phase in my life. But for months, I was scared to write the exam because I did not want to fail it, so it kept me on one spot until my teacher talked some sense into me. He encouraged me with the fact that I need to face what I fear the most.
It was at that point that I realized that it was the exam that was limiting me and I needed it to pass. So I had to talk to myself to face my fears. I later gathered the courage and strength to write the exam and prepared extensively for it. By the time I sat for the exam, it was very easy and when the result came out, I made an excellent grade and was among the top candidates for the set. This took me forward to the next phase and higher level in life. What fear does is to present to you with something that does not exist and paint a scenario that is nonexistent just to make you not to take steps. And without taking steps, advancements will not be possible.
Fear also makes you to think less of your abilities and makes you to believe that you are not capable to succeed at a step. This is why a lot of people have been scared of taking the first step. One very potent way to stand against the fear is to do what has been making you afraid. By the time you take that very daring step, you will be surprised how easy it has been all these while, but your mind had been painting it to you as a mission impossible. You will be surprised what you can do and the level of your abilities when you have taken the first step towards what you want to do. The more you take actions that have scared you in the past, the more you overcome your fears.
The major things that limit people are only resident on their mind. It is true that other factors, like background, status, etc, can influence some other things, but the bulk of it rests on your mind. In order to win the war on the outside, you must have to wage war against the factor on the inside - the mind. To do this, you have to be aware of yourself. That is, self-awareness is the pathway to overcoming the limitations of the mind. This will lead you to discover yourself, your true worth, what your strengths are and your weaknesses, then you will know what you are capable of. Trust me, if you know that you can do something, you have overcome the first limitations of the mind.
After you have taken actions and have become self-aware, then you have to try to surround yourself with people that see positivities about you, not the people that will bring negative thoughts and throw you into negativities that will bring limitations. Who you surround yourself with, will determine what will ultimately surround you. If you want to break free from self-limitation, then you have to be in the company of positive doers. There is a kind of influence that your dominant company will bring upon your life that is undeniable. So to progress positively, it is important that you surround yourself with positive people.
Thanks for reading
