Accept No Limits By Vic Johnson
“A person is limited only by the thoughts that he chooses.” — James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
You are not limited to the life you now live. It has been accepted by you as the best you can do at this moment. Anytime you’re ready to go beyond the limitations currently in your life, you’re capable of doing that by choosing different thoughts.
We each earn the income we do today because that is the amount we have limited ourselves to earn. We could easily earn 5, 10, 20 times more if we did not limit ourselves through the thoughts we maintain.
There are only two words that will always lead you to success. Those words are yes and no. Undoubtedly, you’ve mastered saying yes. So start practicing saying no. Your goals depend on it!
It’s Pavlovian. Springtime arrives and my mind is on a plane to Jupiter, Florida. That’s where I spent many spring training sessions helping the St. Louis Cardinals get into peak mental shape for the upcoming baseball season.
When you were growing up, how often did you hear the words, “It’s better to be safe than sorry”?” Probably too often, especially when you became aware that most people who played it safe ended up sorry. It is the risk takers who generally end up winners!
It is a peculiar truth of life that we often do not appropriately value the things we don’t directly pay for. One of the problems with credit is that it enables us to have something that we want now even though we might not really need it. And had we been forced to earn the money for it first then we might have decided later that it’s not worth the money because it’s not worth the work we had to put in to get it.
If I had to make a composite question that gets at the heart of the question that I am asked most frequently, it would be this:
The tasks we repeat are the tasks we master. The thoughts we review are the thoughts we remember. Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes consistent. Only perfect practice will make a perfect performance.