Happy New Year. Let’s talk about limits.

Some limits are real—the laws of physics, the hours in a day, our mortal frames.

But most of the limits we live within? We chose them. Often without realizing it. We decided what we’re “too old” to learn. What career paths are “no longer realistic.” Which relationships are “too complicated” to heal. We built these walls so gradually we forgot we were the architects.

Here’s what I’m seeing: limits aren’t static. They’re negotiations we keep having with ourselves.

When you learn a new language at seventy, you’re not just acquiring vocabulary—you’re dismantling the belief that your brain stopped being elastic.

When you change how you think about the colleague who irritates you, you’re transforming a limit (this relationship is impossible) into an asset (this friction teaches me patience, boundaries, creativity).

This is the magic and science of beginning again. A new year doesn’t just turn the calendar—it shakes loose everything we decided was fixed. The things we believed were permanent, unchangeable, set in stone, reveal themselves as temporary, negotiable, open to revision.

“I’m not creative” transforms from a permanent truth to a provisional belief you can update.

“My career is what it is at this point” shifts from the final chapter to a temporary stopping place.

“I can’t learn technology” becomes just a story you’ve been telling yourself.

The new year creates permission to reconsider everything.

Your gifts, talents, skills, and superpowers aren’t diminishing resources. They’re renewable and highly valuable.

That desire to learn, grow, and change? Sometimes you can go beyond the expiration date. That limit has freedom and positive risk waiting on the other side.

So here’s the wager: wade into limitless territory. Not recklessly, but deliberately. Create the opportunities that let you become everything you’re capable of being. Not “might be capable of” or “used to be capable of”—are capable of, right now, today.

Your potential exists in the arena of possibilities, not probabilities. Probabilities are just someone else’s limits dressed up as statistics.

Trust yourself enough to find out what happens when you stop defending boundaries you never needed.

The limits that once protected you may now be the only thing standing between you and everything you’re meant to become.

Thanks – Michael (he, him)

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