Blow Your Boundaries
Markus D | Posted 1/30/2009
Are you an adventurous person? Always striving for something new? Or are you a person that's satisfied with the present status and avoids looking too far out of the box?
Maybe you should think about your boundaries then. Basically what this is about is that it is human nature to live and behave within the boundaries you set yourself, which are defined by your experience so far. These boundaries can be very narrow if you are a person with limited exposure to 'new' things, or they could be very large if you have accumulated a rich portfolio of experiences to draw from.
It's a no-brainer that success depends largely on the expansion of your personal boundaries. If you want to achieve new things you will have to change - or do different things, as they say in NLP. If you do things the same way you always did, you will get the same results you always got. It's pretty easy.
So make it a goal for you to go out and push through one of your personal boundaries every day. It could be a small step every day, a bigger one every week, and a big thing every month or so.
With this game plan in mind, you'll get successful as hell in very short time. If you do a little boundary-expansion exercise every day it gets routine for you and you'll also be more comfortable in doing so, when you notice, that pushing through boundaries isn't hurtful, it's just something unknown.
So what could be things you could put on your boundary expansion game plan? Well, begin with the small things. In the morning, after you wake up and your mind is still fresh, think of some small thing you haven't done before and you want to achieve. Then at night, before you go to bed, review how you've performed.
You could for example talk to a stranger on the bus, if you usually don't do that. Or talk to that one colleague you thought is a weird person. Give a spontaneous compliment to a woman in the street. Make a funny comment on the shopping basket of someone standing in line next to you at the grocery store.
Sounds easy? Actually it is. But you will maybe notice that once you push behind your boundaries, a whole new world opens up for you, with opportunities you've never seen before, with new possibilities you've never even dared to think of!
This blog was posted by Markus D on 1/30/2009 and is filed under Dating.
