Our mental limits are those which we have imposed on our mind. We create these limits ourselves or they can come as a result of our education, the family environment and the society in which we live.

While out at work a mental limit is always thinking in the same way. So we always take the same decisions and get the same results. Experience itself may also generate mental limits. You think you know how to do certain things and these convictions act as mental limits. The greater the mental limitation, the greater will be resistance to change.

The mental limits may be related to our identity. We create a very narrow and limited image of ourselves. “I am a man or woman”, “I’m young or old”, “I am white or black”. The image we have of ourselves may be limited, because we do not have sufficient knowledge of our own resources, virtues, values, and identity. It is a wrestling struggle between what you are and what you want to become, and your perception serves the role of direction compass.

Due to the mental limits, we usually have a series of readily prepared responses. They are excuses and justifications that provide us with poor results. We are always trying to solve problems using the same formula and this often causes stress because we cannot find the answer.