Adversity Makes Some People Exceed Their Limits And Others Break

The most difficult limits to break and overcome are the limits that are in our mind. Anthony Robbins, one of the most famous motivators of our time and probably the biggest contributor to personal change in the last 30 years, suggests that success is 80% psychology and 20% strategy.

The problem is that the limits of strategy are usually studied and trained, but the mental limits go unnoticed behind the personality.  Mental limits as such do not really exist, rather they are created by us. The only way to change your limits is to first understand how you create them.

The more mental limits we have, the worse the image we get of ourselves. Our limitations distort our self-esteem and that affects the results we obtain. We act based on how we conceive ourselves.

Is adversity our ally?

In the face of adversity, people have two options, try to avoid it or face it. I could not be more convinced that a life without setbacks is a sterile life. Each of us is the result of learning in difficult situations.

Adverse situations are the scenario that takes us out of our comfort zone to other situations that are much more enriching. The area that is on the other side of our comfort, is an area that allows us to expand, reveals features and resources of our own, unknown to us until that moment, and allows us to turn walls into steps.

When adversity calls, remember these words from the father of Psychology, Sigmund Freud; I have been a lucky man in life: nothing was easy for me.

Living with no limitation as a limit

The only way to eliminate our mental limits is by questioning or rather challenging them. First, before we put ourselves to the test, we have to consider whether what we have thought and believed for a while is true.  That is to say, we have to look in the evidence and not in our supposed limits for real and conclusive evidence that what we think is true.

Once our limitations are questioned, we have to check if we have ever challenged ourselves, when we did it, how we did it and what prompted me to do it. If we have not done it before, we will have to ask ourselves, what could it be due to? And what do we need to make this the first time we do it?

To be able to question the limits that we think surround us, it is necessary to ask ourselves what would happen if we decided to break them. This simple question, with the corresponding visualization of ourselves breaking our limits, can help us get out of the fear that taking a step into the unknown can generate. And, above all, ask ourselves what will happen if we do nothing. Sadly we already know the answer to this question, if we don’t do anything it probably won’t change anything.

It is important that we begin to be aware of what we can change in our mind. Simply include the phrase “I can not do a”  still,  it’s a simple change that creates a very positive effect unconscious.  This added word opens the possibility of achieving that which until now we have not been able to. Remember, challenging our limits is the first step to beating them.