Do You Understand Limitations

What determines your limitations?

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Oh, I can’t do that. Our people don’t do that. It’s not in my DNA to make that happen.

Some of this falls into the category of life’s experience. “If you’re looking for an excuse, anyone will do.”

Sometimes, we are our own worst enemy. In my case, this circumstance created a barrier for me. What do you think?

I was told I was just like my father from a very early age. As time went on and my voice changed, it cemented the idea in everyone’s head that my dad and I were the same kind of person. My father passed from a heart attack at the age of forty-two.

In my twenties and early thirties, the idea that I was like my father began to build in my mind. Over time, I believed that I would also die at age forty-two, like my dad. The idea colored everything. By age thirty-six, I found myself the proud father of six. My wife (at that time) had never worked. She wanted to be, and was, a great stay-at-home mom.

Knowing I wasn’t far from reaching my (own) self-imposed limitation created unrealistic objectives that put additional strain on my heart, my marriage, and my day-to-day actions and interactions with everyone within my life’s circle.

The age of reckoning had arrived. I had nearly met my income and other…