One of the most powerful tools that every person has is the human brain. The brain is more powerful and complex than any computer. Though it is readily accessible to all of us, very few are ever challenged to push the envelop of our mental possibility. Even in our institutes of learning, the use of imagination along with academics is not encouraged.

If we are ever to experience our life in the manner that we were created to live we must learn to take the breaks off of our mind and use our imagination. Your imagination is the key to entering the next season of your life.

Imagination is Key

In the same manner that the wrong use of our imaginations and thoughts can take us into a state of crisis, when used correctly it can be a vehicle to bring us out. Weather you know it or not, what you are thinking is either unlocking the door of your past or unlocking the door of your future. The same key, it just depends on which way you want to turn the knobs of your thoughts.

Self-Imposed Limitations.

The main reason that many of us keep seeing the same things appearing in our lives is because we keep using our key incorrectly. This way of thinking becomes what I call a self-imposed limitation. Why Self-imposed? Because the way you think is never forced on you. We all have influences, but the same way that you have dismissed other philosophies from our minds you have the power to dismiss the things that you have excepted as truth that you can now see are limiting you.

Every limitation that we have in our life exists only in our mind and they remain only by our consent. When we allow limitations to remain we develop boxed thinking. What that means is we begin thinking in predictable patterns.

We all have physical limits, but none of us truly have limitations. Can I physically lift 1000lbs? No. Can I find a way to lift 1000lbs? Yes! Can I buy a million dollar home right at this moment? No. Do we All have the ability and opportunity to make the money? Yes!

Every limitation that we have in our lives is nothing more than a product of our imagination. It is what you believe you can or can not do that makes all the difference in what you will or will not experience in your life. For everything that you believe that you can not accomplish there is someone somewhere that has been through something similar to what you have been through and right now is doing what you are afraid to dream!

The people around you love it as long as you keep thinking in the realm of your self imposed limitations. You become a thread to their lives of mediocrity when you start to dream and talk about things that they are afraid of failing at. The only reason that anyone is afraid to try anything boils down to fear of failure.

Many people go off to college and earn many outstanding degrees and awards, yet their minds are still in park, condemning them to mediocrity.However, when a person gains and understanding of the power they possess with the human mind they can no longer remain in the realm of mediocrity.

Success starts with removing the self-imposed limitations of your mind. Mr. Henry Ford, founder of the Ford motor company said, "the person that says he can and the one that says he can't they are both right". His philosophy here is, your success and failure are a matter of what you believe about yourself!

Barriers

When we speak to people they can be very articulate when it comes to telling us all the reasons why they feel they can not accomplish their dreams. What they fail to understand is that all the barriers that they will encounter in their life are either strengthen or destroyed in the mind. The barriers that we all face will mostly deal with our attitude about the situation. A change in our attitude is one of the first things that has to take place. Your attitude about what you have to face truly makes all the difference!

The barriers you will face have nothing to do with:

A lack of God's resources being available to you.

A lack of talent on your part that keeps you from prospering.

Nothing to do with what you have done in your past and how people may look at you!

When the difference is you living a live of success verses one of suffering and poverty, who cares what people think! The only thing that can keep us out of the best that life has to offer is our wrong thinking!

Enlarge Your Vision An enlarged vision without a change in attitude is useless. You don't want to enlarge negativity. You don't want to enlarge a scarcity mentality. You don't want to enlarge low self-esteem.

One thing we need to pray and intend to manifest in our life is "eyes that are trained to see possibilities and are not focused on limitations"! This is the beginning of the process of enlarging your vision. Before we can enlarge our vision we have to train our eyes to see possibilities and opportunities; finding the good in every situation. This comes with, as I spoke of earlier, a change of attitude. A change of attitude changes the way that you see things. When the way you see things changes the things you see or are attentive to will also change.

From being a born again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ and growing up in the church, I had a lot of wrong teaching that I had to overcome to get to this type of thinking. In the church we were taught that no matter what the situation we are just to leave everything in the hands of the Lord. The proper meaning is, trust in God. The misconception is that we don't have to do anything. However, when we have any understanding of biblical teaching we can quickly see that God did not create us to be the robots that religion has made us out to have to be. We have to be willing to be an active participant in our own deliverance.

If you're going to enlarge your vision you have to learn to see through the eyes of faith & possibility, no matter what your natural senses are telling you!

Faith that says I am healed, when the doctors have given up.

Faith that says I am a winner, in the mist of a defeating situation.

Faith that says I am a winner, even when the once in your own family see you as a failure.

Unless you learn to see through eyes of faith & possibility you will only root yourself deeper in the reality of your current situation or worst you will be subject to repeating your past.

© Copyrights 2007 Wilson Leadership Institute