Success In Life: Don’t Let Other People Limit You
We all enter this world under very different circumstances.
Some of us are born into wealthy families.
Some of us are born into poor families.
Still, many of us are born into families that fall somewhere in between those groups.
How does this affect our potential for success in life?
To be honest, I don’t believe the type of family we are born into affects our potential at all.
I believe that when it comes to having success in life, it matters not where we come from but where we decide to go.
It’s easy to feel that if we don’t have a lot of money or resources at our disposal, that we don’t have a good chance of being successful. I believe those beliefs are the exact nature of the problem.
To quote the great Napoleon Hill:
“Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.”
We are all born with the ability to have complete control over our minds. It is when we relinquish that control to others that we find ourselves unsuccessful.
It is when we don’t truly believe that we can have the success that we want and deserve in life that we are not successful.
Unfortunately, many of us, regardless of our backgrounds have allowed others to influence our thoughts and put limitations on what is possible.
For example, society would have us believe that we can’t get be successful without a certain level of formal schooling and specific degrees.
This is not to say that going to college and maybe even moving on to grad school is a bad thing or isn’t something you should be proud of.
However, it isn’t the only determining factor to your future. Once you allow yourself to believe that you won’t be successful in your career because of a “lack of education”, then you won’t be.
Simple as that.
If we allow our minds to believe and focus on the fact that we don’t have this degree or that degree or that we didn’t go to this school or that school, we have subconsciously determined our future.
We have to keep in mind that education comes in many forms, not just in a classroom.
Someone Who Has Achieved Massive Success In Life
Let’s take a look at one of my most influential mentors, Tony Robbins. Finishing high school is as far as he went when it comes to formal schooling. Yet he is hands down one of the most successful and influential people of our time.
I can hear it now. “Yea, but that’s Tony Robbins you’re talking about. That doesn’t mean I can be that successful with only a high school degree.” Again, we can’t allow those negative thoughts into our minds.
We all have a tendency to justify things in our life, and that is when we get into trouble. We allow ourselves to become complacent because we feel that we have reached the limitations of what we are capable of.
Limitations decided by who?
We have to be careful not to allow this to happen; unfortunately, though, it does happen to many of us – consistently – throughout our lives.
We simply will not have success in life if we don’t believe 100% in what we are capable of.
We will not have success in life if we live by the limitations that we allow others to place on us.
It is essential that we take control over our minds and our belief systems and that we do not limit our own potential.
We have to truly believe that whatever it is we want in life is possible, regardless of what anyone else around us says. We can’t, under any circumstances, allow other people’s negative thoughts to crowd our minds.
We must consistently feed our minds with good, positive thoughts. We must feed our minds with information and knowledge that will help us achieve our goals. If we sit back and allow people to tell us that we can’t have or do something, we are allowing them to place limitations on our lives.
No one should have the power to do that, so don’t let them! As far as I’m concerned, I have one turn here and I decided not to allow anyone else to determine how I should spend it, and how successful I can or can’t be.
You shouldn’t either.
Start today.
Believe it is possible…and it is.
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Hi Lynne and Chad
Just looked at your Addtoany video on youtube and wanted to say thanks for showing how to configure the plugin.
Is that the current version at the bottom of this page or is it another plugin?
Sorry I’m off topic but thanks for the video.
@ Keith
Thanks Keith! Glad you enjoyed the video!
We had actually been testing out a service called OnlyWire when you left your comment – OnlyWire allows you to submit a URL to multiple bookmarking services all at once, which can be pretty useful.
Going to adding a different plugin to this site soon – always testing out new options