You can never truly know your limitations, until you test them.
Individuals who succeed in life, in particular Dreamer-Entrepreneurs, pursue dreams and goals that force them to overcome limitations, expanding their knowledge and/or skillset.
In order to realize any dream you must achieve certain dream-specific goals. Dreams, therefore, force you to create goals.
Think of goals as the construction crew for each one of your dreams. Every dream will require the achievement of multiple goals.
Failure to achieve a goal is a neon sign informing you that you just encountered a personal limitation – a lacking in the knowledge or skills required in order for you to achieve that goal.
Failing at achieving a goal is a good thing – it exposes a limitation that you didn’t know you had. Once you become aware of any limitations you might have, you can eliminate them, which is precisely what successful people do.
How do successful people get rid of their limitations?
They do one of two things:
- They pursue new knowledge or new skills that forces them to grow, thereby erasing a limitation or
- They hire someone with the knowledge or skills they lack.
When it comes to limitations, those who fail, do so for a number of reasons:
- They are unaware of their limitations
- They are aware of their limitations but ignore them
- They fail to gain knowledge or develop skills to help them remove a limitation or
- They fail to secure the assistance of experts who possess the knowledge or skills they lack.
Knowing your limitations is a Rich Habit because it forces you to grow into the person you need to become in order for you to overcome your limitations.
Overcoming individual limitations is a common thread among self-made millionaires. Once they are able to overcome some limitation, they are then able to achieve the goal that exposed that limitation.
And, once you achieve all of the goals behind a dream, you are then able to realize that dream.
