Every year when winter comes around I tend to experience mood swings and feel a little melancholy! Today I was thinking about the limits I have in the area finances and how much money I can make. I was thinking of how I can’t make a break and move into that better financial position I have my eyes on. There are so many things I want to give my children and I was feeling like I was stifled by my own experience, abilities and actions.
I slowly started getting an itch and wondering, “Well, what am I doing to change it.” “What can I do to can I do to step forward right now?”
Since it was early and first thing in the morning I like to take time stimulate my mind and get some spiritually motivating input, I was looking around TED.com to see what might resonate with me. I came across this video by Amy Purdy. Wow, what a perspective change.
I love the way she puts her story together. She is a bright, spunky and engaging speaker. What I find fascinating is how clearly she shows that it is each one of us that defines our own borders, not our circumstances. She lost her legs, but as you will see first hand as you watch her walk back and forth on stage with a bounce in her step she is every bit the woman she was before the loss and I’d have to assume probably more. Her limits didn’t define her, they gave her the opportunity to use her imagination to redesign her life.
I love what she said.
I believe our imaginations can be used as tools for breaking through borders, because in our minds we can do anything and we can be anything. It’s believing in those dreams and facing our fears head on that allows us to live our lives beyond our limits. I have learned in my life that innovation is possible because of my borders. I’ve learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where imagination and the story begins.
Maybe instead of looking at our challenges and our limitations as something negative or bad we can begin to look at them as blessings magnificent gifts that can be used to ignite out imaginations and help us go further than we ever knew we could go. It’s not about breaking down borders, it’s about pushing off of them and seeing what amazing place they might bring us.
Questions: If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? You can leave a comment by clicking here.
