“Argue For Your Limitations . . .

ByMatthew

and they are yours,” as Stephen Covey so accurately points out. Hugh MacLeod, on his amazing blog, Gaping Void (please subscribe to his blog updates, seriously, he’s amazing . . . ), offers us the following business-card art (clicking the image makes it bigger):

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What are you attached to, that is limiting you? What makes you feel safe, yet keeps you small?

You’re more than that. I’m more than that. Let’s be bigger, happier, more daring — we have everything to gain (and only our limitations to lose . . . ).

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