From Danny's bestselling book,
"There Are No Limits"
“Now is always
beginning.” Thomas Hornsby Ferril,
author
Every day we stand at the “crossroads of our lives,” which,
if the truth be known, is a “Y” in the road. One path leads toward
sameness––the other path leads toward no-limits––living that is new, exciting,
and adventurous.
Every day there are decisions to be made about which
direction we will take. And every day new opportunities for personal growth
present themselves to us. Maybe we don’t always see them, but they’re there.
Those opportunities are there for you. Your personal “Y” in
the road represents unlimited possibilities to be explored, challenges to be
met, and chances to experience life to its fullest. When we take full advantage
of those opportunities, we overcome (imaginary) barriers––and prove to
ourselves and anybody who’s watching that there are no limits.
You may be asking yourself: How do I know when it’s time to
take that new direction? Which fork in that crossroads do I choose? And how do
I change direction again if things don’t work out quite as well as I’d hoped?
What if it ends up looking a whole lot like there are limits for me, after all?
Answering those questions is what this is all about.
When we’re born, our developed potential is only a
microscopic dot that sits inside a large circle of our very own undeveloped
potential. Then we go to school and the circle gets to be a little bigger, and
we start to have more experiences and the circle, again, gets a little bigger. We learn more things through new experiences,
and the circle gets bigger still. And then, all too often, when we start a
career, the expanding potential stops. We are left with a large area of
unfulfilled potential. When we stop developing our potential, stop striving to
fill up those circles of potential, we start to take the perceived
barriers––that dotted line––for granted.
We often look at that division between the developed
potential and the undeveloped potential as though it were a wall. But it’s not;
it’s merely a boundary. To move past that dotted line, we must summon the steel
inside ourselves.
Thomas Edison’s widely quoted observation that “Genius is 1
percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration” if often misunderstood. Because
of this remark, many people think that Edison believed a life of toil and pain
was necessary to produce breakthroughs. Nothing could be further from the
truth. Edison delighted in his work,
worked on things that delighted him, and was constantly inspired by the task of
finding new ways to move past old barriers to take advantage of undeveloped
potential. He enjoyed the process of impressing himself––of summoning the steel
inside himself to move past what he had done before.
Everyone has a “steel thread” woven into the fabric of their
being, whether it’s discovered or undiscovered. What’s yours? If you don’t yet
know (or don’t remember) what your steel thread feels like, my book, There Are
No Limits” will help you pose the
questions that will point you toward the answer.
Immediate Action: Keep reading!
Point to Ponder
Before You Go On: “Successful
[people] pay no attention to barriers, real or imaginary, erected by people or
by customs. [They] persistently refuse to limit themselves, knowing the
stagnating and destructive influence of restrictions…Those who limit themselves
or others are not only engaging in a certain form of self-destruction, but are
traitors to humanity and to the world…One need but choose whether he would take
his place with the traitors or with the heroes.” ––Sherman J. Kline, author
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