Achieving Our Goals Is About Conquering The Limitations Within Ourselves
We all admire people who do
amazing things, conquer the odds and break new territory or who are prepared to
move into whatever unknown to achieve the goal they set.
I remember being inspired and
in awe as I watched 16 year old young Australian Jessica Watson sail back into
Sydney Harbour on 15th May, 2010. She was the youngest person to sail
solo around the world unassisted. She took on the immensity and unpredictability
of the world sea and won.
In recent weeks we have
celebrated 100 years since Sir Douglas Mawson went on his epic journey to the Antarctic.
He took on this vast and unknown world in
the advancement of knowledge and science. He also won.
Sir Edmund Hillary also won
when he conquered the highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest, to become the first person to reach the summit.
Or what about Edison?
He is reported as saying when asked about his thousands of attempts to create a
light bulb: “I now know definitively over 9,000 ways that an electric light
bulb will not work.” Later, after more than 10,000 attempts he achieved his
goal.
What about those Para-Olympians
skiing on one leg because the other was amputated or the swimmer swimming
without arms?
Or what about all the
ordinary people around you
- the person dying of cancer
who lights up the lives of everyone she meets?
- the bush fire survivor who
lost all his family, but has gone on to inspire many with his story of resilience
and positive thinking?
- the neighbour who is
crippled with arthritis but gets out every day and walks around the block 3
times because she is not prepared to lie down and become immobile as she has
been told is inevitable? How Did These People Achieve What They Achieved
Against All Odds?
Jessica Watson didn’t only conquer
the sea. Hilary didn’t only conquer Everest. Mawson didn’t first conquer the harshness of
the Antarctic. Edison didn’t first conquer the light bulb. None of your ordinary
people conquered their diseases or the bushfire . What these people did to succeed was conquer the limitations within themselves.
They fought a battle
with and conquered their fears, doubts, failures, inadequacies, their losses
and their grief.
As a result they discovered
their strengths.
My motivating message for this week is to make a
beginning to conquer one limitation after another that is holding you back from
achieving everything you want personally and professionally. |
