Unfettered Day!

[David C Schupbach]

Do we have limitations?

Do our limitations, if we have any, determine our future?

My answer to those questions would be "yes!"
Yes, we have limitations, and they do determine our future, but those limitations are not only self-imposed, but they are almost all in our own minds.
"BUT", you say, My friend Jim is in a wheelchair, he is severely limited in what he can do!"
Noooo.... Your friend Jim merely has a different set of operating parameters! I cannot do what Chuck Bartok or Mark Hultgren, or Garnet Nagy can do, but I am not limited!
"But that's different!"
IS IT?
I cannot do exactly what my friends can do, because I am not them. I do not have their unique personalities, learning, and life experiences.
But I am not limited!
At least not by these things.

My sole limitations are entirely within my own mind!

"Oh please, you can't FLY!"

I can't? I cannot get onto an airplane and cross the country?
I can't take flying lessons and take an airplane into the sky?
I can't learn to control a hang glider, or one of those motorized parachutes?

"That's not flying, that's just you flying a machine." "Birds fly, they use a part of their body to do the flying."

They use wings, a body part, I use equipment. We are both in the sky, soaring. How is that not flying? Wings and planes are both equipment, wings come natural to a bird, I have to use certain tools, but both of us are in the same sky, soaring. Is that not flying?

"It's not the same!"

But the end result is!

My point is this: We can be anywhere we want to be, in life, our career, mentally, spiritually, or physically. My dad always said there was more than one way to "skin a cat."
I couldn't understand why anyone would want to skin a cat, but it was just his way of saying not to give up, if you couldn't accomplish something one way, try something else. Prefferably something that worked! Just don't give up until you get it!

Bruce Lee said: "Do, or Do Not! There is no 'TRY'!"

When you 'try' to do something, you have already decided you can't, or it's just not worth the effort, but you don't want to look bad, so you will make a lot of dust and noise to cover up your limiting belief and maybe everyone will feel sorry. At least they will know you 'tried'! Right?

Wrong! They will merely know you are not committed! Or that you don't believe in yourself, and since you should know yourself better than anyone, if you don't believe in yourself, why should anyone else?

[Rae Steinbrink]

"You would if you could, but you can't, so you won't." Now there's a phrase that speaks volumes. Either you can't(cannot) OR you won't(will not), the two words are not interchangeable. To me, "can't" surmises an external force that prohibits you from making a choice while "won't" lets you make a choice no matter what the external force. Unfortunately too many of us accept the "can't" and automatically "won't". Perhaps if we review our childhood lessons when we learned to talk, walk, tie our shoes, or ride a bicycle we would discover we did not know the word "can't." We were eager to learn, to practice over and over whatever it was we wanted to achieve or do. We made a choice to persevere, to overcome all obstacles, to achieve and in doing so we also eliminated many of our "won't" choices. The next time you say you can't, before you say you won't, find a way that you can and you will.

[Cheryl Baumgartner CITRMS]

I personally love NIKE's tagline, "Just do it!"

It cuts out the perceived limitations nicely