Mountains of Arizona
Cloudy 52 Degrees
2:38 p.m.
I’m not a very aggressive individual. I’m also not very competitive. I don’t care if you’re better than me at X, Y or Z. It stimulates no desire in me to achieve more or to “beat” you. I just don’t care.
I don’t know why I’m this way. I just know I AM this way.
It makes for an interesting time in martial arts. My teacher chuckles at me some times. But I’m ok with that. It’s just me.
As you might imagine, ideas like “pushing through my limits,” aren’t ideas I celebrate or really keep around in my head.
For the most part, I’ve come to the realization that so much of these “pushing to exceed your personal best” and “breaking through your limits” type things are just stories we tell ourselves for a long list of different reasons.
Rather than pushing through my limits, I prefer to find areas where limits don’t exist and then park myself there.
Let’s apply this idea to business and see what happens…
I could wake up in the morning and say, “Wow, I’ve never been able to breakthrough $xxx per year in my business. What would I have to do to DOUBLE that?”
People get excited about stuff like that. They go to conferences and masterminds and fill journals and notebooks with plans for the future. At least this is what people are trained to do.
I call that the normal way. The way where you perceive a limit and want to transcend it.
Then there’s the “other” way.
That’s the way where you wake up and say, “Is there a limit to how much good I can put out into the world today? I’m not sure there is a limit, but I sure as hell know I’ve never come up against it.”
One approach puts energy behind trying to become something you are currently NOT. You see the limit and you want to push through it.
The other approach focuses on areas where no limit is in sight and expands fully into those opportunities that are available in the present.
This might sound like splitting hairs but the energy is completely different.
Some people choose the path of most resistance and try to break through.
Others choose the path of least resistance in an effort to break through more easily.
I’m talking about developing a new way of seeing possibility so that you come to the realization that no breaking through is required.