Adventures in Life Design

Living "Outside the Box": Challenging Your Limiting Beliefs

Are you living inside a box?

No, I’m not talking about your office cubical or referring to the size of your house.

By “box” I mean the set of limitations you put on your life and on what you believe is possible for you. Your set of limiting beliefs becomes an invisible box that keeps you stuck in life.

Most of us began collecting our limiting beliefs from the time we were small children. Throughout our lives we’ve unknowingly assimilated limiting beliefs from our parents, relatives, teachers, friends, co-workers, spouses and from the media.

Learning Isn't Just for Kids

   

It’s back-to-school season and kids all over the country are returning to the classroom.

I can vividly remember my own childhood back-to-school experiences at the end of each summer. I felt both dread (I hated leaving behind the freedom and fun of outdoor summer activities) and excitement (new school clothes, new supplies, and new things to learn).

I’ve always have a passion for learning. Although my school days are long behind me, I continue to study and learn on an ongoing basis and strongly believe in the idea of lifelong learning.

It used to be that learning was simply something that one did as a child and young adult in preparation for going out into the adult world and getting a stable job or career. After that, the main focus of one’s activity shifted from learning mode to working mode. From that point on, learning or training became an occasional (and minor) activity in one’s adult life.

But times have changed…dramatically.