The Man in the Mirror Project - Limits and Bounds

One of the most favorite things for people to do is limit themselves on what they can achieve.  Everyone has a purpose in their lives, but most people don't give themselves a chance to believe that they do and never realize it.

For instance, I may really enjoy painting pictures.  Perhaps it has been my passion for many years but I never took the time to enjoy it, never believed that I could do anything with it because the dialog in my head is programmed as such that the underlying belief is "I will never be a painter" or "You can't paint for a living".

Who made these statements true?  Is it you, society, someone that told you?  These are the limits we place on ourselves.  It is the bindings that bind us up in chains and prohibit us from reaching our maximum potential as human beings.  Things like "that's not possible" or "You'll never amount to anything" simply aren't true unless we consume them and make them a part of ourselves.

The problem is most of us have.  We have accepted these principals as our own without question, without contemplation on whether or not it holds any value.  These bounds we hold onto in our thoughts and beliefs are both of feeling and of mental projection, thereby transmitting our own creations, our own limitations into the universe and making it our truth, even though it need not be.

The most creative and intelligent human beings in history did not believe in limits and bounds.  Albert Einstein did not say he could not become a powerful influence because he was a "nerd" and Gandhi never believed he could not speak his truth because he was "different".  It just depends on how you want to label and believe in yourself that makes the difference.  So tell me, are you a label that someone else has placed upon you or are you living your own truth and becoming who you truly are without limits and without bounds?