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🌳 How To Use Your Limitations To Your Advantage
Our limitations provide us with the greatest opportunity for creativity and inventiveness because our tools are limited. If you had to clean up a garden with an unlimited amount of tools at your disposal, you wouldn’t know where to start whereas, if you had just a pair of sheers, gloves and a bag I’m sure you would get right to it.
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.”
HOW TO USE YOUR LIMITATIONS TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
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History is filled with examples of people who embraced their limitations rather than fought them.
Dr. Seuss wrote his most famous book by only using 50 different words.
Jan Koum built WhatsApp despite being an immigrant and growing up in poverty
Ingvar Kamprad only had enough money to start a business selling matchsticks. He turned it into IKEA.
Our limitations provide us with the greatest opportunity for creativity and inventiveness because our tools are limited. If you had to clean up a garden with an unlimited amount of tools at your disposal, you wouldn’t know where to start whereas, if you had just a pair of sheers, gloves and a bag I’m sure you would get right to it.
It can be easy to spend your life complaining about the opportunities that are withheld from us and the resources that we need to make our goals a reality.
But there is an alternative. You can use your constraints to drive creativity. You can embrace your limitations to foster skill development. The problem is rarely the opportunities we have, but how we use them. The only thing needed to begin a new life is a new perspective. Let your limitations fill you with strength rather than deplete your power.
The more we limit ourselves, the more resourceful we become. Remember all those prison break movies? They don’t break out with chainsaws and concrete cutters. They have nothing but a plastic spoon and gum wrappers and they manage to get creative and resourceful!
It’s also a common problem we all have today with social media. We are constantly overwhelmed with everything all at once and we fail to appreciate the small things. Ideas and creativity don’t come from scrolling on TikTok but from walking through a field with only your own thoughts to consult.
ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:
Either you have limited resources and therefore now you know that you’re one step ahead of everyone else or you have too many resources and can’t seem to be creative or come up with any ideas. Either way, now you’ve found your solution.
TAKEAWAYS:
Lack of resources and limitations fill you with strength.
BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The book of the week is ‘Keep Going’ by Austin Kleon, a book that shows you how to stay true to and focused on your own creative vision when the world seems out of control. In ten heavily illustrated, inspiring chapters, bestselling author Austin Kleon offers advice, stories, and anecdotes that teach you how to persist in doing work that helps make a world worth living in. Check it out HERE
CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️
The creator of the week is @Evanmerger, a US-based self-improvement creator that creates content focused on moulding your mind and body into greatness. He is a breath of fresh air in the self-improvement space and one to follow. Check him out HERE
LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️
How to become instantly happier in life:
Lower your expectations of others & increase your expectations for yourself.
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