 So today, I got my first ever viewer request for a topic and The request that came in you should do one called the fears you don't face become your limits and This sentence intrigued me and I asked for more information He said so many people don't do things to better themselves and their lives out of fear fear of change Or the outcome and fear becomes your limits So I like that idea of fear setting your limits and why is it that? so many people are Well, we all are in some way limited to in what we can do and in the ways we can change and Sometimes people other people can look at us and say well, why don't you just change what's there's nothing stopping you? And yet everybody is living in these kind of little boxes that we build for ourselves where We don't feel like we can change in certain ways It's really Now I've known this and I've thought I've thought this in theory for a long time But the practice of course is where all the challenges is in theory. It's it's really In theory, it's very easy to say that really we can do Anything the only thing you need to do is eventually die. There is nothing else you need to do any day You could begin the day and you could decide to do absolutely anything You could completely do the opposite of everything you've done your entire life You could do Great things you could do terrible things you could do completely nonsensical things Or you could just you could carry on doing the expected normal thing for you But you really can do anything So Why is it what what keeps us? behaving within a Rather small range of behaviors When at any time we could do anything So this idea is that those limits The definition of that box that we live in is set by our fears This makes sense because if you really face The idea that you can do absolutely anything If you really face the Endless possibility it really is overwhelming It's too much Seems like it's too much freedom to handle and although We all we love the word freedom. It sounds like a great thing and a Certain a certain degree of it certainly is a great thing, but when faced with Total freedom it is a terrifying thing to know that We could do absolutely anything and what are we going to do? we can become paralyzed by the choices too many things and Too many unknowns so we build our own box we set boundaries Within which we live like building a nice fence around the property, and then we stay in that property And you might think well, why don't you step outside the property? Look, there's a whole world out there you could Do all these different things go to all these different places and yet it's comfortable to be inside a fenced off Protected property it's comfortable to be inside a nice cozy warm house instead of Outside where sometimes it's sunny, but sometimes it's stormy in the house It's always comfortable and we build this house for ourselves we build a structure of habits and expectations and regular behavior and then That becomes our life. We can live inside this expected range and What's out there is? frightening We we stay in this range because we feel safe and comfortable What is outside is Is Not safe and not comfortable so the walls the fences the borders of this territory this Mental house that we live in are set by Our fears whatever we consider to be unsafe to be outside the acceptable range we Build the wall keeping that out so it's like Building this house for ourselves where the walls are our fears When it comes to everyday life, it's a very practical thing to do and Yet if you think about it this way You can start to wonder Do the walls really need to be where they are Do I really need to avoid stepping out of this particular? box of territory What happens if I do step out it means stepping through one of those walls of fear and Who knows what's beyond there But the next time if my life starts to feel a little bit too boxed in I'll know that the place to look will be at one of those walls of fear and it might be time to Knock one of them down and stretch out my living space