Showing posts with label Limits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Limits. Show all posts

November 6, 2013

THE-WIND-OF-CHALLENGE.


When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.  ― Paulo Coelho, The Devil and Miss Prym


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And when challenge came knocking,
I did not know what to do with him,
I debated with my sensible self, if  should i invite him in or play pretend i was not available at that moment?
I became the bigger "man" and invited him in.
Over a cup of tea and cookies, i was challenged.


---- So i got an email from a client who wanted an order for a product i was not even making or ever dreamt of making? FAVOR BOXES.
My reply to the email was, "Did you mean cupcakes wrappers?" I thought she had mixed up her words and wrote down boxes instead of wrappers?
So i thought to myself, "wait a minute there hunni?! You can do this!! And do it you can so well!"


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So, onto the internet i was searching through doooozens of websites and blogs looking for templates i could use on my die-cutter.
I got a couple of A-MAY-ZING designs, that i tried out. They came out looking great!
NAILED IT!!
I realized how much i had been limiting myself and what my machine could do.
I am now SUPER CHARGED with great ideas.
Everyday from work i rush home to get designing :))
I absolutely beyond a shadow of doubt, LOVE what i do!
I would not trade this for anything. Thank God  \O\ /O/
Whoop! Whoop!
















October 15, 2013

LIMITS

 

Lets talk about Limits.
Am not talking about limits in context to boundaries..
Am talking of limits in context to self-hindrance.

"We limit ourselves to experiences". My wise sister quoted to me one morning.
We limit ourselves to our little desks in the office and think, that is it?!
We do not take ourselves out on dates..we stop indulging in our hobbies and think what's left to do?!
We limit our selves to relationships that are detrimental to us..
We limit ourselves to emotions that make no sense..
We limit ourselves with our shrewdness and the languages we speak,
We limit ourselves to our areas of study and what tribes we comes from,
With limit ourselves to our personalities and the company we keep,
We limit ourselves with our experiences and the knowledge we claim to have gunnered,
We limit ourselves with Age and height and skin tones and body shapes and fashion sense...
We limit ourselves with negative speak & low self-esteem
With know-it-all attitudes & superiority complexes.
We even limit what God can do for us

If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else.
It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. – Bruce Lee

Bruce Lee couldn't have said it any better.
Mental and emotional limits turn into physical limits.
Parkour is a version of extreme sports. Just like the image above, the participants jumps over buildings,  climb walls and anything that appears to stand in their way.
I thought about the sports men, and how open minded they must be.
They are literally limitless. Nothing seems to be able to stand in their way.
Embracing the limitless mentality is the most liberating feeling i could think of.

Parting Shot:

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right.”
Henry Ford