Limitations

The other day I punished my daughter Amanda, because she neglected to do something I asked her to do. I eliminated all of the things she normally has freedom to do. She was grounded and hated it. But then again who likes having limitations upon things that usually have freedom upon. Nobody does.

I thought about Amanda’s situation gleamed a few enlightening things from it.

How many times have we limited ourselves in different areas of our lives?

Have you ever found yourself working at a dead end job with no light at the end of the tunnel?

I can recall being in relationships that where bad for me.

Have you ever found yourself stuck in the same financial bracket with no sign of being elevated to higher plains?

These are limitations we have either allowed to happen to us because of our thinking, a problem or situation dictated to us. Many of us have been placing ourselves on punishment.

Whenever we place our children on punishment we immediately place new limitations upon them and they lose many of the freedoms that they are accustomed to having.

The sad thing is that many of us are living life as though we are on punishment losing freedom and living a restricted life.

A life restricted from making a better income, a life restricted from acquiring a better job opportunity, a life restricted from having a healthy loving relationship and a life with many limitations.

What are you limiting yourself to?

Have you given up on finding a better job?

Have you accepted the erroneous belief that you will never make more than 35,000 a year?

Have you just given up on the possibilility of landing a much better job than the one you are working at now?

Have you given up on finding a healthy loving relationship because some person broke your heart and you just can’t let go or move on?

By answering yes to any of these questions means you are living your life with limitations. Acting as if you are on punishment, like my daughter Amanda. That means you probably have your lips poked out, living with limitations, are surrounded by the four walls (you may have constructed yourself to keep you safe from things).

I came to tell you that you don’t have to live your life as if you are on punishment. God made us and gave us freedom of choice. I will leave you with a very powerful question and a quote.

How can I live my life with limitations that hinder you from being all that you can be in life?

“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.” Jamie Paolonetti