I was having lunch with a friend of mine who shared a story of a high jump female Olympic athlete. I was so concentrated on the story that I forgot the name of the athlete, sorry.

When she went to her first training her new coach asked what was the highest she had ever jumped. She told him. The coach proceeded to place the bar 1 ft higher than her previous highest jump. He told her that what she needed to do was to start running from further behind. You see, the height of the jump is directly proportional to the speed with which the athlete runs—the faster the speed, the higher the jump. The coach told her how much further back she should start running. This extra distance gave her the ability to achieve greater speed. A shift in strategy. To her amazement after some tries, she accomplished this higher jump. Clearing that one extra foot was previously unimaginable to her.

What are your self-imposed limitations? What do you tell yourself you can’t do?

I am listening…