Would you choose Limitation or Possibility?
Posted on February 14, 2023 by Mi-Hyun LAMMERT, One of Thousands of Leadership Coaches on Noomii.
How do they work Limitation verses Possibilities in your thoughts ? How they can affect to your outcomes?
Some of the clients came with the feeling of struggles around their issues, and from that they feel stuck, discouraged and discomfort and try to get out of it without success. What they want to feel instead was a feeling of ‘free’, ‘comfort’ and ‘having a choice’. How can they find this empowerment? How can they get out of this feeling of struggles? After working some time
to find their ladder to see how they can make opportunities and these will bring them positive challenges, they gain their free will to choose. And from these limited framing towards being able to change the perspectives towards possibilities are immense step towards the goal or their dreams.
Limitation :
a condition of limited ability
a defect or failing, the act of controlling and especially reducing something
A restriction; a boundary, real or metaphorical, caused by some thing or some circumstance.
An imperfection or shortcoming which limits somethings use or value.
When do you feel stuck and stressed?
We feel stuck, pressured of stress, feel judged, we feel discomfort, and mostly fear when we are struggling and can not see other options, and we feel like we do not have empowerment, that is limitation.
How can you get out of these unpleasant moments? What is helping you? Will you stay with fear and discomfort or will you get out of the circle to move step by step and accomplish what you want to build for next? How do you make this challenge and put aside these limitations?
You need strengths to fight these doubts and struggles, even if you hear little voices that discourage you from inside and outside, and you can only find these strengths when you decide to begin to look for possibilities. What makes things possible? How do you move out of these limitations towards possibilities?
Possibility:
A thing that may happen or be the case
Unspecified qualities of a promising nature; potential
Latin origins of the word hint at ability
When do you feel powerful and full of choices?
Possibility is abundance and opportunity.
We feel free and empowered when we have choices and we feel that our potential can play a role and we can again think of our strengths and use these strengths fully. Strengths are the tools that we have in us, and we know of, yet we do not bring in when we are stuck or in difficulties, since we put our limitations. So here I would like to emphasize more how I would like to use with my clients and how powerful they can be.
I have noticed that some clients think that they do not have controls in many situations, especially when they feel discomfort and not be able to look otherwise. And when they realize that they have some choices to make, it is when they feel lighter and feeling ensured to be able to do something, and eventually move forward. Of course, there are other tools that can play roles, meanwhile, when you know that there are some possibilities, it seems that things lighten up, and when we can finally look for the challenges and moment to act, these are the most amazing moments of the progress towards your accomplishments and success to your goals.
“Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.”
Jamie Paolinetti
I am quite into yoga since many years, I have been thinking about limitations during my journey in early years of practice, and something had changed and learnt to bring more possibilities into this journey. After this mind set, I have found that I do not think about my limitations. I focus on possibilities, and I imagine my potentials.
What could have been the shift?
How about you? Where can you use this shift?
“The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts
you use today.”
Les Brown
We often put the limits on ourselves, making some patterns around us, not even knowing that we are doing it. And this pattern stays and becomes a system for a while. Are we not lucky to be able to have different options for tomorrow?
“Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.”
Terry Josephson
How simple and beautiful this saying pronounces the two tools, we have potentials, we have possibilities, and we have strengths to work on after.
So how can we focus on possibilities not on limitations? How can we build strengths out of struggles and be ready to grow?
Having limitations is a bit like being ‘stuck’ in our own beliefs and not being able to see outside, I do not have to remind, but we have all been there and we may fall in again. The important thins to remember is that we need to challenge ourselves sometimes to have a different point of views.
