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Un-limit yourself
What are you doing with the marvellous abilities and the extraordinary potential built into you?
Experts on human nature generally agree that the average person uses but a fraction of his potential mental capacity.
Apparently most of us are using no more than one-fifth of the potential mental capacity that is ours.
Why do you suppose this is true?
Believe in your potential.
One reason is that we haven’t adequately developed the potential that is ours.
But a second reason is this:
We do a terrible thing to ourselves; we actually let our self-imposed limitations restrict our God-given capabilities.
A person tells himself, “Beyond this point, I cannot go.”
And then, a greater tragedy occurs:
We settle for being less than we can be.
Nothing is impossible.
For example, a boy came to me recently and said,
“These things you write about, they may work for you, but they don’t work for me.
You aren’t the product of a broken family, but I am,” he explained, “I didn’t have a good upbringing.”
His mind held onto this idea and wouldn’t let it go.
Oh, occasionally you do run into a person whom you recognize as an egotist.
This egotism is not pleasant, but neither is the self-depreciation you hear from so many people.
How they explain and re-explain how little ability they have!
How they insist that they have no talent and declare that they haven’t any brains!
What would this world be like if everyone facing difficulty were to sit back and accept his or her circumstances?
Everything would come to a standstill.
Everyone has a deficiency that could limit him. But it doesn’t have to.
Bob Wieland, who lost his legs to a landmine in Vietnam, could have accepted his
limitations.
But instead, he returned to the United States to become a champion weight lifter, marathoner, triathlete, motivational speaker, television actor and outspoken advocate for those who have no voice: the homeless, the hungry and the spiritually confused.
Bob traveled across America—propelling himself with padded knuckles—to raise money for the hungry.
His handicap was not a hindrance—it was an incentive.
- N V Peale.
