This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 2032, limitations by Audi Redzick of AudiRedzick.com,

and a narrator Justin Mollick, the guy that reads articles to you so that you don't have to read them

yourself. And it's the fourth of July. Hope you have a happy and safe one if you're celebrating here

in the U.S. Today I have a post from Audi Redzick, so let's get right to it as we optimize your life.

Limitations by AudiRedzick of AudiRedzick.com

If you know me, you also know that I am wired to reach new vistas, challenge myself to break my own

limits and expand and grow in every possible way, and preferably take others along with me.

Indeed, I believe our purpose is growth in breaking the limits of yesterday.

However, I've also learned that not all of us are wired this way. As a coach,

this is a hard pill to swallow. I was talking to a friend and she shared how her parents had been

the same and had lived the same lives for the last 30 years. She too, at a hard time understanding

that someone would pick sameness over advancement. I wondered, are they even aware of their own limits?

Are they scared of them? Each of us has a capacity on any given day. I talk about mental,

physical, and emotional spoons with my clients. This capacity, like lifting weights,

is very real and pushing beyond it right away, can be harmful. But like with lifting weights,

what happens? What can be done over time and with proper support? Then I wondered,

are we all designed in a way that we reach a point when going beyond these personal limits

isn't possible? Recently, another person pointed out to me that this is, indeed, a reality for many,

including himself. Again, a very hard pill to swallow. At the same time, research as well as

anecdotal experiences, including my own, confirm otherwise. So what gives? Then it hit me.

We can overcome our own limits, but only if we are aware of them and we choose to do so.

As a human species, we are actually wired to seek new vistas and break our own barriers.

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