Barriers created From The Mists Of Ignorance
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not." - Denis Waitley
Denis has it half right.
It can also be what you think you are not, and how knowledgeable you think you are that hold you back.
In fact perhaps we should reshape the entire statement.
What you think about yourself and your environment determine what you will be able to accomplish.
It may have been Zig Ziglar that said "If you think you can't, or you think you can, you are right."
This is where we scare off the college professors. The honors they have received, and those they have taken upon themselves, blind them to this following true perspective.
We know very little, and much of what we think we know is just plain wrong.
That is why belief is so much stronger than accepted fact. Our educational systems are constantly setting boundaries. Only through faith and desire have individuals again and again extended those boundaries.In the early 1950's Roger Banister announced to the world that he would run the mile in under four minutes. Everyone thought he had lost it! The sports "experts," the medical establishment, everyone! In 1954 he did it. It has been reported that within one year, over 30 people ran faster than Banister himself. When asked how it was possible for so many people to run that fast so soon, Banister said: "It was never a physical boundary, only a mental one." - source unknown
You have the ability to accomplish much more than anyone has ever let you believe - including yourself.
Find your passion, find your own four minute miles -- break them all.
"The risks and rewards of creative entrepreneurship are greater, and of far more value to society, than illusions of security that enslave human cogs in a social machine." - Allan Wallace
Here we are talking about your own business, that is a good place to start tearing down boundaries - but don't stop there.
We are all surrounded by solid looking barriers that limit our achievement. Most such walls were erected using the mists of ignorance - run right through them.
persevere and enjoy,
Allan
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