Undoing Limitations

I want to introduce you to my friend, Jean Hudson, who is part of my brain trust. Jean brings her humour, sensitivity, positivity and behavioural insight to the 8 members of the Calgary Entrepreneurs Peer Group. She has the rare ability of being able to listen before she speaks and to give direct and supportive guidance.

After reading how to remove limitations, listing to Jean on Blog Talk Radio by folling the link at the end of the story.


Undoing Limitations by Jean Hudson


What barriers or roadblocks stand between you and what you want? Bring to mind a goal, any goal. What stops you from reaching it quickly? Perceived limitations.

What will undo any limitation is the awareness that it is our vision, not what we are seeing, that is limited.
Billions of distinct bits of information are being registered by our senses every second. We are aware of only about 2000. What do you choose what to pay attention to? Are you keeping your goal in mind, and paying attention to reality (as experienced by the five senses) or to the mental limitations, the stoppers, the what if’s?

Check it out. Look around the room you are in. How many specific bits of information can you identify? What can you see, hear, smell, taste, touch? Now close your eyes. How much do you recall? When you have remembered all you can, open your eyes and look around. What did you miss? There is too much available information to hold in consciousness. So we filter and sort it, delete, distort and generalize it, pay attention to some and disregard the rest. Consider what does get your attention and focus.

When you think about your goal, are you single-minded? Do you pay conscious attention to desired outcomes, and then take focused action? Do you explore ways to achieve what you want, examine your strengths and excavate your inner resources? Do you look beyond what you may have seen before, study the reality of the situation in depth? Identify what you may have previously missed?

Most ‘limitations’ are simply ideas, thoughts, mental constructs, not necessarily based on sense data (reality). Are you willing to look beyond them? What else is possible? Could you ask others for help in seeing what you are missing?

What will undo any limitation is the awareness that it is our vision, not what we are seeing, that is limited.

Put your name on a goal. Go straight for it. Do not stop at bland or boring. Play full out.
Those who succeed are not any brighter or talented than others. They are simply more willing to look closely at reality, and to move beyond preconceived limitations.

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