KNOW YOUR LIMITS

Achieve Your Goals

PEOPLE want to progress as much as possible. They aspire to achieve the greatest possible success. For such people, “The sky is the limit”, as the saying goes. But this saying is actually unnatural. The fact is that man’s abilities are very limited. On account of our limitations we can move up only to a certain limit, not beyond it. If you take the saying “The sky is the limit” literally and you forget your limitations, imagining that you can achieve any and every thing, you are bound to fail to achieve all that you want. You are sure to suffer frustration and despair and to leave the world in that condition. Unlike what this saying claims, man’s true target is not the ‘sky’. What we need to do, instead, is to know our natural limits and, accordingly, plan our lives.

In place of ‘The sky is the limit’, the aphorism ‘Stress is our limit’ makes much more sense. It indicates that we need to make efforts to achieve our purposes, but when we feel that we have fallen victim to stress we should know that we have reached our limits. Our limits, then, are defined by the limits within which we enjoy peace of mind.

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If you take the saying “The sky is the limit” literally and you forget your limitations, imagining that you can achieve any and every thing, you are bound to fail to achieve all that you want.

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We should make full use of our abilities, and should continue to do this as long as we do not face mental tension. That is what remaining within our natural limits is about. But when we find ourselves falling prey to tension, we should realize that we have reached our limits. We must halt at this point, and not futilely proceed further.

Whatever we might obtain in this world is possible only as long as we remain within the limits of nature. We cannot get anything transgressing these limits.