No LimitsSample

For fifty plus years I’ve worked to improve my life and to help improve the lives of others. Nothing brings me greater joy than helping others grow and get better. This devotional was written to lift you up and help you increase your capacity in six key areas.

You see, I believe you can live a life with no limits, that you can go further than you believe and do more than you’ve ever dreamed.

That’s because you have great value. You have great potential. Not only are you good enough, you have the ability to get even better and to achieve greater significance.

But that doesn’t mean you don’t possess limitations. There are caps that people have on their life that simply can’t be removed:

• Birth Caps—you have no control over where you were born, when you were born, or the family to which you were born. Likewise, you had no control over your gender, ethnicity, or genetic traits. You must learn how to work with what you were given.
• Life Caps—sometimes things happen beyond our control. We experience illnesses, suffer accidents, lose people we love, or discover that we lack the talent or ability to fulfill a dream.

While there are certain limitations we all must deal with, there are far more limitations that we place on ourselves—either by our beliefs or our choices. These kinds of caps not only can be removed, they should be removed if you want to live up to your true capacity. They are:

• Caps Others Put on You—other people have a perception of who they believe we are. In the Bible, there’s a great example of this: King David. When God told the prophet Samuel to go to Jesse’s house in Bethlehem to crown God’s anointed, Samuel wasn’t expecting to place the crown on David’s head. After all, David was small, he was young, and he was a lowly shepherd. Yet he would go on to kill Goliath, marshal Israel’s army, and become a man and a king after God’s own heart, because God saw something Samuel couldn’t.
• Caps You Put on Yourself—perhaps the most limiting caps we encounter are the ones we’re responsible for. We give away our ability to grow and fulfill our potential when we continually seek approval from others, live in a limiting environment, and have few models of success to inspire us. Each of those things may sound like an external factor, but they are all things we control by the choices we make. We have more power to unlock our potential that we often believe.

I believe in you, and I want the best for you. Others in your life may not. The truth is, you can be successful whether others believe in you, but you cannot be successful if you don’t believe in yourself.

I can help you discover a path forward that will increase your capacity, but you still have to believe that the God-given potential within you is there—and worth pursuing. 

To learn more about making expanding your capacity, you can read the book that inspired this plan, John C. Maxwell's No Limits: Blow the Cap Off Your Capacity .