Comments on: Limiting Yourself: The Key to Your Success

By: Dee-Ann LeBlanc

Dee-Ann LeBlanc — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 07:32:02 +0000

As someone who’s worked in multiple creative fields, being told to create something with no limits can actually be terrifying. Where in the heck do you start? When I make jewelry, I often chose a single material or color or object or concept to design a piece around. When I write about a technology I choose a piece of news or recent event or some fascinating aspect of that tech. So yeah, conscious limits are often the key to success, IMO.

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By: Gilbert Ross

Gilbert Ross — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:03:43 +0000

Interesting perspective. I would be careful on not falling into ambiguity with the work ‘limits’ though.

I see your list of ‘positive limits’ as being more an act of focusing and narrowing down your to-do list and barring off distractions (which is a very clever thing to do by the way) rather than limiting yourself. I see you drift though of using ‘limits’ to mean setting practical boundaries and action plans.

The above are static limitations (and conscious in your case). There are also limitations to change, growth and improvement which have the real negative connotation of the word ‘limitation’.

By: sameer

sameer — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 05:44:49 +0000

I would rather call them ‘constraints’. Applying constraints to work or ideas is what will actually bring out creativity in oneself.

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Vijay - Meditation Techniques Guide — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:24:14 +0000

This is an excellent post! In order to succeed, it is really very important to limit ourselves to the first target at hand and complete it, then move on with the next target. Focussing on too many goals at the same time just diverts our energy and distracts us, and results in failure. You have pointed out the importance of limiting ourselves for success very well. Keep up the great work!

By: yuro

yuro — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:57:50 +0000

Great post about limiting yourself.

For me, my most important limitation is don’t test yourself. When you understand yourself truly and you know there are things that you can easily addicted it is easier not to test yourself. For my case, I am addicted to games, if I play just one game I end up playing several game up to 7-8 hour a day. This is when I learn that I shouldn’t test my self not even playing a single game, because I know that I am weak with my addictive problem.

By: Dalibor Ruži?

Dalibor Ruži? — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:08:04 +0000

Almost all good in our life is from conscious choices. And like good cook trim fat from meat to make more enjoyable dinner, we must trim fat from our lives to make them more enjoyable.

By: Faramarz

Faramarz — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 10:01:10 +0000

I guess you’re right in a way but the thing is you’ve just set limits on how you work. Limiting email or working on the weekends is just going to help you prevent stress etc. While this helps prevent burnout there’s no guarantees it will help your success.

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