Is
Your Ceiling too Low? Breaking Through the Invisible Barriers that Stop Our
Success
Walk into a house and notice regular height ceilings. Looks
good at first but soon you notice there are some things that just won’t fit because
the ceiling is too low. Walk into that same house with vaulted ceilings and the
home looks bigger and more spacious. Now take yourself to the Vatican. Look up.
How amazing. The ceilings are so far up and the scenery just got a lot more
beautiful. Now look higher than the ceiling, your highest ceiling is the sky.
The sky is endless and has so much beauty.
Where is your ceiling to life? Have you made invisible barriers
that represent a ceiling? You can gauge your ceiling by measuring your
self-doubt. If you don’t set goals because of fear of failure or a lack of self-confidence,
you might have placed barriers into your life that represent a home with traditional
ceilings. If this is the case, create a list of major lifetime successes and
also very current successes (small or big). Come up with at least 10. You have
ten. Review this list and note how you were able to overcome barriers and build
up your confidence in the past in order to achieve. Now set goals that will
push you to a “vaulted ceilings” level.
On the other hand you might have self-confidence and are
able to push aside doubt at times. Your ceiling to life might be at a “vaulted
ceilings level.” Your trouble might be that your dreams and goals are not big
enough. You might notice that you tend to play life safe. Seth Godin, Author of
the Purple Cow said that staying safe is what is risky in life. And, I believe
this. By setting goals that are outside of your comfort zone, you challenge your
confidence to grow. As you work toward growing outside of your safety net, your
confidence grows and you will begin to live life more fulfilled and interesting
because you are discovering new things. You will begin to notice new passions
and deeper excitement. You are now in the Vatican.
If your dreams and goals are big, you have passion for just
about each day of your life and you rarely lack confidence, your ceiling of
life might be at a Vatican level. Your challenge here is to keep pushing
yourself to be open to new experiences and opportunities. When a problem rears
its ugly head, quickly turn it into an opportunity to grow and develop. But most
importantly, if your ceiling to life is as tall as the Vatican you are challenged
to now help others identify how tall their ceiling to life is and to encourage
them to break those barriers. Share your goals, passions and stories to help
others fight through fear and break the invisible barriers they have created.
As you do this, you will become a person of influence. A person who achieves big
and has the influence and desire to pull people up has created a ceiling to
life of endless opportunity and fulfillment, the sky.
This week your challenge is to identify how high you have
placed a ceiling over you and create a plan to raise the ceiling to the next
level.
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