The other day I was talking to one of my daughters about her future and what she wanted to do with her life. I told her I would help her “To the limit of my possibility.” As I began thinking about the concepts of “Limits” and “Possibilities,” I realized we are the only ones who ultimately put a limit on our possibility.
What is the limit of your possibility?
Where could you go and what could you achieve if you were to test the limit of your possibility?
As human beings we tend to look for comfort over discomfort; ease rather than difficulty. 
Nevertheless, a life full of comfort and ease can also be a life which lacks emotion and ecstasy.
Think for a moment of your own experience and what you have achieved. If you have attained any level of scholastic achievement or anything else significant in your life, did it come without obstacles and with ease or perhaps as the result of sacrifice and compromise?
To achieve the majority of things in life which are worthwhile, we must test our limits and be willing to reach beyond our grasp. For example, if we want to meet that special someone who makes our heart race and causes us to lose composure, which would be the best option?
a) Wait for them to come and talk to us?
b) Take the initiative, get up and go to them?
c) Watch while someone else gets up and goes to talk to them?
Those who attain what they want in life are not those who sit around waiting for something to happen, rather those who get up and take action to achieve what they most desire. When along with action, we continually test our limits, we can go farther than we ever imagined possible.
History is made by those who decide to test the limit of possibility. Christopher Columbus went in search of a new route to India going west from Europe despite others saying the world was flat. John F. Kennedy set a goal of putting a man on the moon despite many who said he was “crazy.” Like them, there are countless others who with their own unique brand of “crazy” decided to take their rudder of life and direct their destiny. They are also those who have achieved what others never dreamed possible.
What could you achieve if you had no limit on your possibility?
What keeps you from testing the limit of your possibility?
Might it be fears, uncertainties and doubts?
Limits are self-imposed. When a baby is born, nobody tells it, “You will never achieve much in life because you were born white, black, yellow, tall, short…” or for that matter any other characteristic. We are born into a world where not even the sky is the limit; we are born into a world where there truly is a “world of possibility.”
What are you waiting for?
Tomorrow will come with or without us. We are the only ones who put a limit on what we can dream and achieve. Let’s go forth daily with confidence in our ability to achieve what we believe while continually testing our capacity to go beyond the limit of possibility.
∞ Rob McBride ∞
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