In life many times, a person wishes to accomplish some new goal or achieve some new direction for themselves. In that instance, a person has many things going through his or her mind. Will I be able to achieve this goal? Will it be worth my effort in the end? Will this decision cost me later on in life? To answer each one of those questions takes honesty on the part of the individual. He or she must know his or her own limitations. Herein lies the problem.
A person must be aware of his or her own limitations. That would mean knowing and promoting your strong points and working on your weak ones. In this area I find lately that, if allowed, people will take it upon themselves to set limits for you. They will tell you how far you can go and what you are and are not capable of doing. You may have a goal set that they themselves don't see the value in or that they had at one time and couldn't achieve. At any rate, they allow their negative attitudes to be known. They intentionally do things to limit your progress and everything that is within their power to do they perform. If not all at once, gradually they set out to limit you as someone in the past has limited them.
Now whether you know me personally, or you've just been reading my blogs, you know that this is not the mentality that I subscribe to. One human does not have the ability to specify the limitations of another. Why?
1. Humans cannot read the heart. They don't know your inmost thoughts and intentions.
2. They don't know what you've had to face or what you've overcome.
3. They don't know your work ethic.
4. They cannot tell the future.
Bottom line, no one can decide for you what your limits are. They can however exert enough negative influence to dissuade you from achieving you goals. But, that's only if you are easily swayed, swayed by people who neither know your potential or have faith in your abilities. You know yourself, and having said that you know what you can accomplish and when you can accomplish it. If you know like I know, then you know and believe that you can accomplish anything at anytime.
That picture is one taken atop Mount Everest. I'm sure somebody didn't believe this could be done either!
