12 Reasons to Live a Limitless Life

12 Reasons To Live A Limitless Life

We are fortunate enough to have been born during the information age. If you are reading this right now, you are doing this on a device that few of us could effectively describe to people who lived even a hundred years ago. Go even further back, can you imagine explaining your iPhone to a farmer in medieval times?

We have the world, literally, at our fingertips. Unlimited access to all of the information known to man. Free online seminars. Downloadable books. The ability to connect with the world’s most successful people directly on social media. Yet – I feel as though much of this potential is squandered.

We use what is arguably the most powerful tool ever created in order to…waste time at work and watch cat videos on our phones. We are taking a tool designed for productivity and allowing it to make us less productive.

We have no excuses, and infinite possibilities. We have the resources that we need in order to live a limitless life, and here are twelve reasons why we should take advantage of them.

The Playing Field has been Leveled

Not everyone is born into equal circumstances. Some are not fortunate enough to make it to college (Note: College is not the only path to success, this is an example). Some don’t have the experience to get a good job. Some need to take on adult responsibilities earlier in life and don’t get the education they would have wanted.

The internet and advent of social media have given people the ability to rise from the ashes and educate themselves. You can listen to full ivy-league lectures on YouTube without paying a dime. You can read the blogs of the world’s most successful people. You can enter the minds of those you’d never get to communicate with otherwise.

In short: Do it because you can.

You have an Unprecedented Opportunity to be Yourself

Thanks to the internet, no matter who you are or what you’re into, you can be connected to someone else like you. Someone else with the same interests. Someone else with the same passions. Someone else with the same challenges.

You can, for the first time ever, be assured that someone, somewhere, will accept and understand you. Before the internet, if there wasn’t someone who understood you where you lived, there was really no way to reach out and connect to others. Now, you can spread your wings.

Of the billions of people who have ever lived and died on our planet, there has never been another you. You are a biological and evolutionary miracle unlike any other. Embrace it and own it.

You have the Ability to Change the World

This reminds me of a story many of us have heard. One of a man walking on the beach with his son. There were thousands of starfish that had been washed up onto the shore. The son began to run along the beach and throw them back into the water to save them.

The father stopped him and said “What are you doing? There are so many of them, that will never make a difference.” The son looked up at his father and said – “To that one, it will make a difference.”

You may not change the entire world, but you can change the world for one person. If each of us did that, would the entire world not change by default? We all have this opportunity to create lasting greatness every day, no matter how small the act.

These uncomfortable, sometimes confrontational moments in our lives are the exact times that our destiny is shaped. These are the universe opening the door to greatness and testing your courage to walk through it.

You can Reject the Concept of Being Average

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The world doesn’t need any more average, but don’t ask what the world needs. ‘Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs, is more people who have come alive.’

How dare you lead a life of silent discontent while a fire burns inside of you.

How dare you take the infinitesimally small odds that your birth even occurred and squander your years here on earth by settling for average.

Of the billions of people who have ever lived and died on our planet, there has never been another you. You are a biological and evolutionary miracle unlike any other. Are you really going to allow your one chance at this beautiful life to be summed up by falling somewhere in the crowd of mediocrity?

You Only Get One Chance at this Life.

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Perhaps the most important reason I can think of to live a limitless life, is that it’s the only life any of us get. We are here for a relatively short amount of time – an amount that differs for all of us. And, there is nobody to tell us just how much time we have.

The only thing that remains certain is that eventually we will find out – but by then we will have made all of the decisions we are going to make. We will have taken all of the trips. Loved all of the people. Enjoyed all of the time. Read all of the books. Had all of the experiences…

We will have lived the one life we are able to live. Use it to become limitless. Use it to help others. Use it to make an impact.

These are our small chances to become immortal. The small chances, despite not being able to live forever, to create something that does. To be the subject of a story carried on about that one time this amazing stranger did this amazing thing and changed the course of history for an individual or a family.