Thoughtful Thursday & Breaking the Fun Barrier

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You may be setting an upper limit on having and creating more fun in your life without even realizing it.

We all view the world around us and interact with it in a certain way because of how we see things.

Creating our life experience with our thoughts and beliefs.

Some of the thoughts you have may be beliefs that are FALSE and they are keeping you from living life to the fullest.

In this week's podcast episode I share 7 false beliefs that may be creating a fun barrier for you.

In order to create, experience and express more fun and joy in our lives we must learn to overcome these barriers.

One of the false beliefs that I see people struggle with is the idea that if they have fun then they are being disloyal the people in their life that are struggling. 

The truth is we can't help others by choosing to not have fun.  

Being miserable and not enjoying ourselves does not in any way help someone else that is struggling.  

We are here to add our light to the world.

By adding our light to the world we don't take away from someone else.

We bring more light that we are able to shine on others.

I love this quote from Gay Hendricks' book, The Big Leap.

I have tweaked a little bit.

“Understanding why we’ve limited ourselves liberates a new energy in us, which we can draw on to propel us to new heights of abundance, love...[ creativity, and fun].  As we spiral upward in our quest to express our unique genius, we will likely soar past ghosts and shadows of those old barriers.  For this reason, it’s best to think of our quest as a continuing journey of transcending upper limits.  The payoff for the work is a gift of enduring value: we get to live in the full rainbow of our potential, in our Zone of Genius.  In that exalted space, we enjoy the love, abundance, success, [and fun] we create and our very presence inspires people wherever we go in the world.  We transcend our upper limit problem each time we make more room inside us to feel more love, abundance, [creativity and fun].  It’s done moment by moment.”

Our lives are filled with innumerable moments. 

By practicing new beliefs, we can break through our fun barriers moment by moment.  

How will you use your moments?

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