Your Goals Are Your Ceilings
Your goals are your ceilings.
They are the very thing preventing you from achieving what you want to achieve.
Because you place them on a pedestal.
Because they are important to you.
And because they mean something to you, you automatically assign difficulty to them.
You feel like you must gather enough evidence before you give yourself the permission to say that you deserve it.
And that is what is holding you back.
And I can prove it.
Right now, if God or some higher power came down and gave you, let's say, a dollar,
You'd be grateful, but largely unphased.
If he gave you $100, you'd be a little happier, that's pretty cool.
If he gave you $1,000, you might be extremely grateful, but maybe a little confused.
And as we continue up this scale, at some point, your enthusiasm would fade.
At some point, whatever your goal number is in your head, things would change.
Let's say it's $50,000 per month in income for your business.
If God came down from heaven tomorrow morning and said "Here is $50,000 a month for the rest of your life."
Your first reaction would not be relief, or gratitude, or excitement, as you may think.
Your first reaction would be "Why?"
To which God would reply "Because it is what you asked for."
To which you would reply "yeah, but why are you just giving it to me."
And that right there shows you why your goals are your limits.
We could use a sporting example.
If God came down tomorrow morning and said "Today, you're living your dream, you're playing in the NBA."
You would not be excited, you would be terrified!
Why?
Because you do not feel you deserve it.
You do not feel you are ready.
Now are you ready for the big secret?
The big reveal?
Okay, here it is:
The only ones who make it are the ones who give themselves permission BEFORE there is any evidence.
If you treated $50,000 a month the same way you treated $50,000 a year, things would be different.
You know that in most western countries you could get a job tomorrow making $50,000 a year.
Yet to make $50,000 a month seems impossible.
And that is the barrier.
We as a society have put things on a pedestal.
We treat humans that have treated incredible things as incredible human beings.
But they are still human beings.
The only difference between them & the rest, is that they give themselves permission long before there is any evidence.
There is another caveat.
The reason, in my opinion, that Bill Gates, & Elon Musk, & Jeff Bezos, and many others make the astronomical amounts of money that they do, is because of this:
They were never chasing money in the first place.
And therefore do not experience the same limiting beliefs & obstructive thoughts that everyone who is pursuing money faces.
They have always had their eyes fixed firmly on a Mission.
A mission that as a by-product made them incredibly rich.
Elon Musk could have stopped after Paypal if all he cared about was money.
We'd have no Tesla.
We'd have no Space X.
Like him or not, the man is on a mission.
You see, the people who make money and achieve greatness have two major differences to everyone else:
One is they either do not chase money directly but instead chase something that produces money as a by-product (like a mission for a company, or mastery of a sport). And two is they give themselves the permission to deserve it before there is any evidence to confirm it.
What type of person has the audacity, the arrogance, to believe they could compete in the NBA as a teenager?
Kobe Bryant did, Michael Jordan did, Lebron James did.
Do you see what I am trying to say to you?
You have a goal in your head that you are trying to achieve.
You are struggling. You are working your ass off. You are working your fingers to the bone & burning the midnight oil.
And yet never seem to get there.
Let me ask you this, from another angle.
What do you need before you are willing to say "I deserve what I want?"
How much evidence? How many skills? How many client testimonials? How many wins? How many points?
How much evidence will ever be enough until you FINALLY give yourself that permission?
Seriously. Consider it.
Until you drag your goal off the pedestal and view it the same way you view picking up a $5 bill on the sidewalk, it will forever remain out of reach.
Or maybe you enjoy the struggle?
Maybe you enjoy the chase more than the arrival?
A question worth asking yourself…