Breaking our Limits

Considering this being a new year, breaking limits is a thing me and my readers should embrace. It is typical for many of us to set goals and formulate plans to achieve these goals. Nonetheless, we find it close to impossible considering factors such as finances, relations, and our very own choices. Such brings limitations to our achievement of these goals making it detrimental to their realizations. For instance, me being a scribe, I plan and intend to finish my manuscripts before mid-year and spend the rest of the year publishing and promoting my craft, so, what are my limitations? I would say writing in itself is a challenge as any other. My critics would claim that this is a bogus approach to career yet deep inside, these are in fact my goals and ambitions. Breaking these limits could be as well one of my new year resolutions.

            In the planning of goals and in the setting too, one has to know their limitations for these to be achievable in the long run. It is by common knowledge that once a challenge is overcome, another challenge arises. Similar to the mantra that once a door is closed another one opens. Limits tend to push us to become better; thus, they extend our restrictions and in the process, we become better human beings. Deadlines are a common fete in the life sequence of a writer/scribe. Taking notes from Wrestling with the Devil by Ngugi wa Thiongo, he took to himself 10 months to complete the manuscript to the novel. Mind you, he did this behind the iron bars of the infamous Kamiti Maximum Prison. He stretched his limits by jotting down his thoughts on toilet paper for the limited period of 10 months.

            Breaking limits is a mantra we should adopt in this new year of 2023. What would happen if we did not achieve and break our limits? Depression and other ailments of the mind and soul tend to creep. Take for instance, the very trait of every scribe is to procrastinate. If we, the scribes allowed this common feature creep deep in our bones, then we would have uncompleted manuscripts and my writings being of self-help, then maybe we would lose a soul or two to this atrocious world of ours. Hence, me waking up at the crack of dawn would be my clear example of breaking a limit. Furthermore, who else would write my thoughts? Or rather, who else would achieve that goal you set? Break your limits.

            For one to achieve progress in their day-to-day lives, it is crucial to understand where one is at their present moment. With such, they would be able to set achievable goals and set their own frameworks that would enable them achieve them. The norms of goal achievement circle around the knowledge of one’s esteem. Upon this realization, limits would be a thing of the past and would be more of a stepping-stone. Mind you, in the achievement of purpose, one tends to filter useful information, information that would refine one’s soul and presence with their peers. And with purpose, breaking one’s limit becomes an enjoyable fete, break your limits!