Discover how to break free from societal limitations and achieve your true potential. Learn to overcome the constraints set by family, friends, and colleagues, and pursue your dreams with confidence. Unlock your success by thinking outside the box and embracing new opportunities.
In my opinion, everyone does their best in life to become something or someone. But when are you someone in this world, and who or what determines that? Who can and may become what? Are they the instructors and teachers of education, the managers in business? Did you grow up with a father, a mother, and extended family who wanted to serve as an example for you? Who told you, just like they told my family, that you could want anything, but that “a dime could never become a quarter in this world.”
Societal Limitations | Does the future match the perception you have of it?
The world around us is often open about the rest of the world, but isn’t that just because they have their perception of how things have gone and should go? The perception they have formed about the world as they know and have experienced it. The perception that their parents have conveyed to them. A perception of hard work, keeping your mouth shut, and listening carefully to the boss? The boss who, of course, also has his or her ideas of the world. Probably another opinion that they have picked up somewhere in their lives, and that is currently bringing the success they once dreamed of. But is this the right reason to support you in your personal growth? How many people grow into a position below their capabilities?
Are your dreams always a deception?
The fact that luck plays a very important role in the accumulation of success, and that most starting entrepreneurs in the Netherlands stop or must stop within two years, no one thinks about that in the beginning. Some people never dare to carry out their dreams, no matter how sure they are about them. Simply because of the uncertainty they receive from their environment in the corridors. An environment that dispenses their advice based on their own once limited ideas about the situation in our world. These people just don’t understand that there is much more possible between heaven and earth, more than they could ever imagine, from a different way of thinking and looking at things.
Looking differently, seeing differently?
I am convinced that because of what I described above, many people will never be able to achieve their real goals in life. I understand that there can be a great inconvenience if you go against the opinion of your parents, friends, acquaintances, and/or colleagues. They have built their opinions by the things they see and have experienced, but is this also your truth? Have you ever taken a step outside the boundaries and/or beaten paths set for you by these people, and how did this feel? Did it go horribly wrong the first time, causing you to immediately step back on the paths predicted for you, or did you secretly try again? Have you braved the anger and disappointment of those around you in your own way with a helmet?
Have you ever learned to walk and ride a bike?
Unfortunately, many people have forgotten that they learned to walk at the beginning of their lives, and to pee in a potty. The first time on the bike or in the car did not always go well during these learning moments, but many of you did not give up. Under the encouragement of all the people mentioned earlier in this piece, we continued stubbornly, and learned to walk and ride a bike just fine. At these learning moments, many people can look back on the world from their own lives and upbringing. They, too, have generally learned this from others who have had the same positive experiences with these things. After all, it is “normal” for a person to learn to ride a bike, walk, and become potty trained, right?
Do you often think outside the box and the beaten path for you?
Almost everyone can walk the beaten and normal paths, but after that, the uncertainty about the things of life often arises. Many people become the teacher of others out of kindness, they are only too happy to help, but do they have enough knowledge to be able to direct and organize your life as a great talent? After all, these people work from their own experiences and perceptions. Take on the challenges in life, discover the new and challenging things that come your way. Dare to “fall off the bike” again, get up and move on. Discover your own talents and possibilities, even if the wind is sometimes against you. Know that you are a unique person and entitled to your own opportunities and possibilities. The “counselors” around you may be disappointed at first. They may even be angry, some will become jealous, but if you have shown sufficient understanding in your past for their limitations, you will quickly win many backs for you.
Do opportunities often only come along once in your case?
Perhaps the roles will turn in your victory in life, then you will become their counsellor with your spectacular ideas and daring. Please keep in mind that your thinking and actions also have their limitations. Be generous with your counsel, and help others when and where you can, but view things from your “limited” capabilities and “limited” knowledge. Give the other person the opportunity to walk a route in his or her life that may be unfamiliar to you. Give someone the chance to make his or her own mistakes, and recover from them, maybe you too will learn something new that you once thought impossible. Work together, and enjoy life. Together we are always stronger than alone.