Virtually everyone wants to achieve the greatness they were

“destined” or made for. They want to be great at the activities,

tasks, and/or occupation(s) they choose to pursue. They don’t
just want to be capable of doing the job; they want to be so good
at it that they achieve their goals (i.e. money, fame, recognition,
etc.), get recognized by others, and help make positive
contributions to the world. Unfortunately, many people don’t ever
achieve the greatness they were destined or made for because of
limiting beliefs that make them believe they either can’t reach this
greatness or they believe they are not worthy enough or deserve
to have this greatness.

Many people believe that they can’t reach the greatness they
want to achieve because they don’t have the capability of
reaching this greatness. They believe they are somehow
deficient or lack some quality or qualities that will enable them to
achieve this greatness. They believe they have to have these
special qualities in order to achieve the greatness they want to
achieve in life. They believe that the people who have achieved
this greatness and their best potential had some special skill or
insight that enabled them to reach this greatness or best potential.

The truth is that the people who reached this greatness or best
potential didn’t have any special skills or insight to reach that level
of greatness or potential. All they did was reach past the doubts
or limiting beliefs they had and pushed themselves toward that
greatness that was destined or intended for them. They just put

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in the hard, continuous work necessary to achieve it, even when it
looked they had fallen short or couldn’t reach it; that’s the only
thing different between the people who have reached that
greatness or potential and those who haven’t.

The people who reach greatness are not deterred by others who
tell them that they can only achieve so much and have to be
satisfied with what they have in life. They are not deterred by
setbacks or failures, factors that stop many people from pursuing
their dreams and achieving their greatness because they believe
the failures are a sign that something can’t be done. The people
who reach greatness keep striving for it even when it seems they
have little to no chance to reach it. This is what enables them to
obtain that greatness, while others fall short of it.

Another limiting belief of people who don’t achieve their greatness

is the belief that they are not worthy enough or deserving enough
to achieve that greatness. They believe that they aren’t a good
enough person or that they should not have such recognition,
praise, and success because they are not worthy enough to
receive it. This can often come from a childhood upbringing of
appreciating what you have, not seeking fame or fortune, and
making do with what you have and being satisfied with it.

Such an upbringing, while teaching humility, can limit a person’s

desires and dreams of finding that greatness and achieving all
he/she can in life because he/she thinks it is bad or undesirable to

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have the drive to achieve everything he/she can and being the
greatest and best he/she can be. While the parents or
grandparents who employ such a philosophy on their children or
grandchildren are usually doing this with the best of intentions, it
unfortunately limits their outlook and thinking to where they feel
they should just get a decent job, work hard for their families, and
appreciate what they have. They never really consider that they
could have more and should have more if they were only willing to
continue striving toward their dreams and desires, to really work
hard to find the greatness within them and achieve all that they
can achieve, both to improve their own lives and the world at
large.

The truth is that it is not bad to want to achieve the greatest

potential you are capable of achieving, to want to reach that inner
greatness within you, both to help yourself/family and the world.
Utilizing your best gifts and putting forth your best effort is
something to strive for, something to really exalt your appreciation
of life and the opportunity you’ve been given to make a better life
for yourself and a better world for everyone. The fact you receive
money and recognition for doing such things and striving to
achieve your best potential should not be looked upon as
negatives, as you need money to survive and thrive in this world,
plus receiving recognition for a job, career, and life that is
managed well should not be considered a bad thing.

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To overcome your limiting beliefs, you need to have self-
appreciation for yourself and feel you have self-worth. In other
words, you need to appreciate yourself and the skill sets you
bring, as well as realize that you are worth improving yourself and
worth achieving as much as you possibly can while you live. You
need to have confidence in your own abilities and have
confidence in the fact that you deserve to improve yourself and
make the best contributions to this world as you can.

Making yourself better and making the world a better place should
never be looked upon as something bad or something that is
undesirable. On the contrary, improving yourself to the point of
reaching your best potential and making a positive impact on the
world at large that benefits humankind, all other lifeforms, and the
environment should be looked upon as a worthy goal and one you
should be encouraged to undertake with all of your intensity,
focus, and determination.

Many of humankind’s greatest inventions would never have come

into existence if people weren’t willing to push through their
doubts and limiting beliefs, even when they were ridiculed or
questioned for attempting to create something extraordinary or
remarkable for humankind. Such inventions as the light bulb, the
telephone, the automobile, and more would not have come about
if their inventors had given up hope because the process to

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achieve them was difficult or because other people had doubts
they could do it. Even learning about the world at large, such as
physics and explaining how specific aspects of life work (such as
gravity) often take much hard work and working through
challenges and doubts in order to be reached.

Yet, the inventors of these items and the creators of these

theories and explanations didn’t let limiting beliefs stand in the
way of their drive to find the answers, to build the devices and
theories that are used in the world today. Building these devices
and theories didn’t come easily, and there were many doubters
along the way to where the inventors could have given up, but
they didn’t, and what occurred? They were recognized for their
inventions or revelations, they received fame (and often fortune
as well), and the world benefited as a whole.

Such a process has been occurring pretty much since the

beginning of humankind on Earth. Even the cavemen who
roamed the Earth thousands of years ago had a drive to become
better, to improve the lives of those around them. They went from
dwelling in caves to building huts, to building better weapons so
they could hunt better in order to survive better. The innate
human instinct is to always strive and become better than what
we currently are; striving to become better, improving oneself, and
achieving greatness is part of our genetic makeup. There is no

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reason to think that it is bad to achieve more and become better
than what we are, especially when others will likely benefit from
our achievements and accomplishments as well.

Therefore, you need to have a belief that you are worthy of

achieving great accomplishments in your lifetime, as well as
believing that you have the capability of achieving these
accomplishments. You need to realize that people who have
already achieved and are achieving their greatness are no better
than you are, nor any worthier than you are to achieve greatness.
You just need to strive for that greatness and continue to do so
regardless of any setbacks and doubters that you encounter, just
as the ones who have and are achieving greatness have.

One way to help overcome these limiting beliefs is to see the idea
of improving yourself as a personal challenge. Turn the idea of
improving yourself into a game and see how much better you can
improve yourself. The time length you have is your lifetime to see
how much better you can improve yourself. The object is to set
goals that you want to achieve for yourself within your lifetime.
The rewards for doing a good job at improving yourself is the
satisfaction of achieving the goals you have set for yourself and
receiving the recognition of others for achieving those goals.
Money and other benefits such as promotions and awards are
“bonus items” or “perks” you’ll receive as you continue to

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accomplish the goals and rack up the achievements you
complete.

Another way to help overcome your limiting beliefs is to ask

yourself how you differ from other people. Why do they rate
higher than you do and why do they deserve to be successful and
you don’t? Why are they better than you? By asking these
questions, you should realize that these people are really no
different than you are. They are human beings, with a heart, a
brain, arms and legs, hair, and other features you find on humans.
They have the same structure and mental capacity that you do.
Therefore, you should come to realize that they are no different
from you and, thus, have no more right or benefit to be more
successful than you. Therefore, you also have the right to
achieve the most success for yourself and the ability to find your
inner greatness that can benefit yourself and the world, just as
they have and are doing. All you have to do is to apply the same
drive and persistence they have to experience similar success to
what they are experiencing.

Another way to overcome your limiting beliefs is to ask yourself if

improving the world for others is a worthy cause. Most people
would say “yes” to that. Most people would see that helping their
fellow humankind enjoying better lives because of your
contributions to society is a worthy cause and one worth pursuing.

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Most people would not see helping others as being “selfish” or as
a cause being unworthy, as helping others is seen as a positive
contribution in many cultures, societies, and religions throughout
history, including today. This is all the more reason and impetus
you need to convince yourself that improving yourself and your
skill set is a worthy and noble goal to improve your contributions
to society at large so that other people can benefit.

The same process as the one above can also apply to the other
lifeforms on Earth, as well as to the environment. Would most
consider making the Earth a better place for the animals and
plants be a worthy cause to pursue? Most would. Would most
consider making Earth’s environment better for all life on it now
and for generations to come a worthy cause to pursue? Most
would. Your desire and effort to improve yourself in an effort to
improve the environment to benefit all of life on Earth now and for
generations should provide you with the impetus you need to
strive toward your own greatness and achieving all of the goals
you can in order to improve the environment and making life
better for all on Earth, both now and in the future.

Therefore, you have learned that limiting beliefs center around the
ideas that people either can’t reach their greatness because they
lack something others who have achieved greatness possess, or
people can’t reach their greatness because it is undesirable or
because they are unworthy to do so. People who believe they
can’t reach greatness because they lack something others who

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have achieved greatness possess. However, if you look at it
rationally and really think about it, these people are no different
from you. They are not smarter, faster, have some advanced
ability you don’t. All they had was a persistent desire to continue
improving themselves and striving for their goals and objectives,
even when others doubted them and/or obstacles popped up and
stood in their way.

Therefore, to overcome that limiting belief, you need to trust in

your own abilities and gain a persistent desire to always strive for
your goals, even when it seems the whole world is against you.
Do not fall into the trap of, “well, the universe is telling me that I
should not have this” or “the universe is telling me that my goal is
impossible to reach.” Most great goals are not that easy to reach,
but that doesn’t mean they can’t be met. After all, if the inventor
of the telephone and the light bulb had gone by that limiting
philosophy when they experienced challenges and naysayers, we
wouldn’t have those items today, and life on Earth would be much
different and more challenging for humankind.

The second main limiting belief is that people think they are
unworthy to reach the greatness they can have and/or it’s
undesirable to achieve it because they were taught to appreciate
what they have and settle for what is appropriate or what they can
get by on. While such a philosophy can help people to be
humble, it also limits their potential to be all that they can be, to
reach that greatness they can achieve if they strive for it. It is

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important to realize that striving for greatness and achieving all
you can be not only benefits you, but it often benefits the rest of
humankind as well, as well as other life on Earth and even the
Earth itself.

Inventions, ideas, and work (such as social work, volunteer work,

conservation work, etc.) have helped to preserve human life,
animal life, plant life, and the environment on Earth. All of these
are worthy goals that most would approve of working towards. It
should not be considered “bad” to work towards such goals, nor
should you feel unworthy or undeserving of working hard to
improve yourself to be all that you can be. Working toward
improving yourself is a part of our culture and our DNA; caveman
and the earliest humans continued to progress to improve
themselves and their societies’ way of life. This improved the way
they lived, the way they hunted, the way they communicated with
each other, etc.

Without working to improve themselves, the human race would

have never evolved to the state it is at today. Therefore, if those
humans were willing and capable of improving themselves to
enhance the life of all around them, isn’t it also a worthy goal for
us to do the same? Don’t we also have the same and even better
capabilities than they did, better resources than they did, to

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achieve our greatness and achieve the goals we wish to achieve,
to better humankind as they did?

You know what the answer is, and that’s why you know that you
are certainly worthy and capable of pushing past your limiting
beliefs and achieving the greatness that is within you.

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